Red Hat / Fedora - Basic Questions: Version? Upgrading?
I'm totally unfamiliar with Linux.
I've got a Linux Server running here at our business, and I need to figure out how to get an online backup service for my data. To do that, I've got to start by knowing what version of Linux I'm running, because the backup service requires Fedora 10. I'm a totally Windows person... have used windows since the beginning (yes early 80's)... and know very little about how to even navigate and find my way around in Linux. I found this browser called Konqueror on the Linux server, and it says it is Konqueror 3.4.1-0.fc4.1. I'm pretty sure I've seen the phrase "Fedora Core" but I don't know where to look to find out what version of Fedora I've got. If I'm not running at least Fedora 10, I may need to see if I can and how to upgrade... but I don't even know where to find out my system specs to see if I meet the requirements (300Mhz, 92mb Ram, 75 MB free disc space) Can anyone help? Be nice, please... I'm a total Newbie here. |
If you right click anywhere in the desktop background, there should be an "open terminal" selection. Click on that.
Then you will see a terminal which you can type commands in. So type the following as you see here: Code:
[oracle@rhat52 ~]$ cat /etc/*release* |
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Do the system specs seem powerful enough to upgrade to Fedora 10? If I were to upgrade, is it a fresh install (wipe the drive and install new) or will the system upgrade itself to the new version? This is a server and there's lots of settings that I don't want to lose. |
you might want to install CentOS 5.3 ( the community RHEL 5.3 )
fedora has a 13 month life cycle and fedora 11 is the current . After 13 months THERE ARE NO SOFTWARE or SECURITY updates released Cent OS has a 5 year life cycle so there are SECURITY updates for 5 years a back up service REQUIRING fedora 10 is A VERY BAD idea and I WOULD NOT USE that service in about 3 months fedora 10 will hit it's END OF LIFE -- that means there will be NO updates to fedora 10 after that . also unless you DO LIKE doing a FRESH install of fedora every 6 or 13 months ( a new version of fedora is released every 6 months) on a business server - with ALL the down time that entails and broken software this will cause . Use Cent or RHEL on a business server |
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