Thanks Stephen, that was my logic, but only every year or two.
Regards
On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 at 17:10, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 at 10:14, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 03:53:49PM +0100, Dave Pawson wrote:
> > > Not all that bothered about being 'up to the minute', and after
> > > 20+ Fedora installs it does get to be a drag...
> >
> > You should be just fine with CentOS for most cases. Check out the new
> Fedora
> > Toolbox command ('toolbox') — this makes it super-easy to launch and
> > maintain "pet" containers using podman, and you could use this to
> provide a
> > Fedora working environment for when you need newer stuff. (Or conversely
> > people running a Fedora OS can do the opposite with a CentOS container.)
> >
> > One thing I'm curious about, though -- you mention installs getting to
> be a
> > drag. Have you tried the update process in the last few releases? It's
> > basically like applying a big set of updates, with no reinstall required.
>
> It is good to do re-installs regularly to avoid problems like whatever
> file-system in Fedora N does not work with containers (or some other
> new feature).. but the Fedora N+1 filesystem does. You can only get
> that availability by reinstalling or creating a new file-system which
> you put stuff into... so in many ways a fresh install is usually good
> to do every 4-6 releases so that you aren't debugging 'why doesn't
> this new utility work'
>
>
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