Brad Fuller:
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. Are other distros better at upgrading but also provide all of the nice features that Fedora does? (there are a lot of audio apps available in rpm for Fedora. I just can't spend my time compiling each and every one when updates come along.) What do others do?
I switched to gentoo for the same reason. The number of audio packages is also probably higher in gentoo than any other distribution, using the proaudio overlay. However, if you are looking for a distribution that doesn't require much maintainance, I'm not so sure gentoo is the one for you. Ie. you never have to wipe out the harddisk, but on the other hand, you have to do lots of other stuff. If I hadn't had many years of sysadmin experience, gentoo might have been awful. But it has so far been working very well for me, and its nice to always have updated packages without manually downloading, compiling and installing them myself.
