On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:30:11PM -0800, Brad Fuller wrote: > every time there is a new Fedora Core, I usually get around to moving to > the next version. However, for me, it's a bit of a pain to do because > you really have to wipe the disc and start all over.. ."upgrading" > Fedora doesn't really work well. At least for me it doesn't. > > Don't you find this a bit irritating? I do. It's not hard, it just seems > unnecessary. I don't know why people tolerate this sort of thing. Debian and Ubuntu have _always_ upgraded well for me. These are projects that recognize that one of the most important (if not _the_ most important) responsibilty of a distribution is dependency management, including versioned dependencies through upgrades. I recently started maintaining a RHEL server at work, and up2date is one of the crudest tools I've ever seen. It just barely does anything right at all. I guess I've just been spoiled by apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, update-manager, et. al... (And the package maintainers for the above-mentioned projects -- package managers need good data to do their jobs well). -Forest
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