I still am running FC2 on my DAW. I have upgraded my main office computer nearly every other fedora release (I figure that the even releases will be better, much like the Star Trek movies) and I haven't had much breakage (i.e. by using the upgrade option in the fedora CD-roms). I use Planet CCRMA for my DAW and find that everything (on FC2) is running perfectly, so I don't see any real reason to want to break...I mean upgrade the OS. Once I build out a 64-bit machine I will install the latest and greatest... Incidentally, I just installed FC6 on another (non-music) machine and was happy to see that they are no longer using uptodate. They are using pup I believe, which can be set to use other yum repos. And, the distro's fedora extras included Jack, Rosegarden and other music apps. -Joe On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 19:17 -0800, Brad Fuller wrote: > Forest Bond wrote: > > 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). > > > Upgrading applications is easy as pie on Fedora, as long as you get the > right repos. I use Smart Manager and it's very nice, once you get it setup. > > My concern is not applications, but the distro itself. If there was a > way to upgrade from FC5 to FC6 using Smart Manager, I'd try it. But, I > didn't know there was a way. I've always had to wipe the disc clean and > start over. I tried upgrading from FC3->FC4 using the CDROMs, but it > never worked quite right. I actually tried a few times. I even tried > FC4->FC5 from the CDROMs. But, always had to start from scratch. > > brad
