Andrew Farris wrote:
I was perfectly happy with RH 6.2, and most of what I do now I could do
there, so this can't really be an issue.
A year passes and you've installed an assortment of
additional apps and perhaps written some of your own.
Upgrade to next Fedora. Gets easier each time around. A bit of foresight
when installing originally helps much here.
Precisely. The update or upgrades are essentially very simple to handle
when you've got a sane partitioning scheme setup.
I _really_ have to believe that you haven't run fedora over any span of
time across a variety of hardware with an assortment of additional
software installed.
Anyone running Fedora (and especially anyone testing updates or rawhide)
that does not have their home on a separate partition is nuts (or new to
that concept). If you have /etc/ /root and /home where they can be
safely backed up and restored, then nuking your entire system for a
fresh install is a couple hours of work at best.
I just fail to see how anyone interested in running Fedora at all cannot
find a few hours every 6 months to handle that.
Some people might have better things to do - unless that's an offer to
come over and do the upgrades for me if you really believe it's that
easy. The problem is that upgrades do not go smoothly, and if yours
have so far it is a matter of luck. I've had disk controller drivers
missing or broken, firewire access wildly unpredictable, and after
finding hardware to move to, still had to spend days tracking down
corresponding driver modules, perl modules, installing java, etc. to get
back to where I was before.
Maybe it's just old fashioned, but I'd prefer that the computer work for
me instead of the other way around.
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