Am 10.02.2012 03:54, schrieb Paul Allen Newell: > On 2/9/2012 6:08 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> 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 >> > > Please note that I never advised that anyone else should do a fresh install rather than an upgrade. I was only > qualifying my opinion about "new/moved filesystems" in F17. Plus I don't think Windows has anything to do with the > topic or what I said ... the closest one can get in the way of comparisons is "fresh install" versus "upgrade" for > dealing with future Fedora changes. sorry, but permanently reinstall the OS is a windows-thing and especially unnaceptable if all 6 months a new version is available and you have to maintain 2, 5, 10, 20 machines a scripted dist-upgrade for 20 servers with yum takes around two hours (proveable by logs) inlcuding download from local repo-cache
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