Re: Rolling Release Model(s), Fedora Discussion

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On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 13:56 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:

> This is perhaps better accomplished by using a separate partition
> for your data and system. IOW, perhaps you should put /home, and
> perhaps /usr/local and /opt, on separate partitions. This is a good
> idea, anyway, because then if you have the room, you can have two
> "root" partitions, and upgrade/install on only one of them. If the
> new system has some problems, then you can revert which one you boot.

That's not quite as easy as it sounds, because when you log in to a new
version of GNOME (and presumably KDE as well), it will alter the files
in your home directory in ways that may be incompatible with going back
to the old version. For that reason, I usually create a new user account
to log in as under the new OS until I am sure it is working correctly,
and only then log in with my normal account on the new OS.

These days, I have had very good luck with just doing an in-place
upgrade, so that's what I usually do now. That worked with no issues
when I went from F10 to F11, and again to go from F11 to F12.

--Greg


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