Am 10.02.2012 02:51, schrieb Paul Allen Newell: > but for whatever reason my gut says that clean installs when F17 is released > will probably work (no bets on Rawhide as that is where the problems are > supposed to be discovered --- and notice I use the word "probably" and not > "definitely" (smile)). I am less positive about upgrades from prior Fedoras. > But, that being said, I must confess that I never do an upgrade, always a fresh > install. but there are people who are working with their machines and do not twice a year reinstall like windows - for me it takes TWO DAYS until a fresh installed machine has exactly the state i like/need to have before start working this is for my two workstations here are running 20 server (Vmware guests) in production since 2008 (Fedora 9) currently on F15 and i have never made a fresh install of a linux system in my whole life for updates because it is not windows and should not get windows even i do not a fresh install for new pyhsical machines my machine at home was bought two months after the workstation in the office, both with 4x2 TB disks with RAID1 for /boot and two RAID10 for / and /data and the seocnd one was a simple dd-over-ssh-clone and change ip-addresses this are the things where linux is really strong and damage yum-upgrades in any way would be a hughe step backwards to windows-gameloaders
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