On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 21:13:21 -0500 Mike Chalmers <mikechalmers70@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I do not understand how Fedora expects you to upgrade or reinstall > every 6 months or so. > > This is just not right. > > Should a distro keep continuing to make you install every six months, > if so, I would rather use Microsoft. Feel free. I believe Microsoft solved the problem by labelling the equivalent degree of updating as "service pack" instead of release. However if you want to run the latest stuff it tends to require other latest stuff which in turn ends up updating everything a step. If you want an utterly boring older technology long life setup then you want something like Centos, which backports key fixes over the years rather than adding the latest and greatest. Given you only need to update every year (two releases) and its a case of shoving a CD in or running the live updater/rebooting it's not a big deal. I've got boxes I managed that started as Red Hat 6 or 7 that are now Fedora 9 or 10 entirely by upgrading. Thats a bit like going Windows 98 to Windows Vista without a reinstall and it works just fine... Alan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
