The Nice Spider thenicespider@yahoo.com wrote:

If I want to upgrade RH8 to FC then which version of FC should I use? Is it safe to upgrade from RH to FC? Please share your experience here to help me.

Your best bet would be to back up any user data and do a clean install. Since you're still running RH8, you might do better with a RHEL clone like CentOS that emphasizes stability over "cutting edge."

If I remember correctly, the main difference between RH8 and RH9 was gcc moving from 2.x to 3.0. This meant that all RH8 binaries were potentially incompatible with the RH9 kernel. RH8 was primarily a "revenue release" since it really didn't include anything new above RH7.3. It probably should have been RH7.4 but then nobody would have bought it. Current FC releases use gcc 4.1.1.

Bottom line is any custom binaries you had for RH8 will at least need to be recompiled for Fedora. Any "standard" programs have probably changed so much or evolved to something different that it's very doubtful that many settings, rc files, etc. will come forward. Figure out what things you need to re-implement, copy them off and then do a clean install.

Cheers, Dave