On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 20:14 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Horst H. von Brand wrote: > > >>>> 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 > > > > I'm running Red Hat since Red Hat 3 or so, and then Fedora from 1. On an > > rather wide variety of machines (Alpha, SPARC and SPARC64, i386 to i686, > > x86_64, single/double/8x processor, ...). All the way as machines in a > > computer lab, day-to-day workstation, and servers. I am running Linux since its earliest days. After short periods of using SLS and Slackware, I was using SuSE for many years. Switched over to RHL around RH-8.0. Now Fedora, since its first days. Similar deployment scenarios as you. > > And yes, upgrading used to be a pain, but is is getting easier all the time. In comparison to RHN, things have improved significantly, but ... when switching to RH8 I had been shocked how many years behind RH's installer had been in comparison to SuSE's :-/ [The issues with their distro had been elsewhere, otherwise I would not have switched to RHL.] > I'm not convinced this is a predictable trend. Agreed. I think, there is a long term trend, nevertheless the short term trend has a noteworthy amplitude. >From my experience, I am inclined to consider FC7->FC8 had been swing downwards. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
