On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 03:53:33PM +0100, James Hogarth wrote: > On 2 June 2016 at 13:21, Ryan Lerch <rlerch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > hi all, > > > > I have just polished up the post on the magazine for the the new feature > > in Fedora 24: Graphical upgrades. It is kind of short, but hopefully it is > > to the point, and pretty sure it covers most of the points about this new > > exciting feature. > > > > https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=13079&preview=1&_ppp=2c7978763d > > > > is anyone able to take a look at the copy for me? > > > > Also, in the article, I talk about being able to update to 24 from 23 > > using the updated gnome-software in F23, but this package is not in Fedora > > 23 yet, and wondering if we should hold off on posting this until we are > > certain that it will make it into Fedora 23... > > > > > > > Well the FESCO ticket tracking it is here: > > https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1576 > > According to that, even if it is not ready by GA, it'll be enabled shortly > (week or so) after GA ... so it'll definitely still be a F24 change rather > than F25 but just a little bit later than release day itself perhaps. > > But then many users are a little conservative in when they update anyway > due to 0-day bugs in the past (hello loss of selinux customization, that > was a pain). Also there is a COPR that users can install to try it out now. Richard Hughes wrote a blog post with instructions here: https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2016/04/20/upgrading-fedora-23-to-24-using-gnome-software/ I've used this successfully on two systems thus far with good results. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- Fedora Marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
