[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Behdad Esfahbod <behdad <at> behdad.org> writes:
>> The major problem Wikipedia faced seems to me more being that
>> Fedora/RHEL/CentOS is not really upgradeable, whereas Debian/Ubuntu handled
>> upgrades quite nicely.  *That* seems to be a major weakness of us.
> 
> The same "apt-get dist-upgrade" which works on Debian/Ubuntu just works here 
> too (with apt-rpm - I've done several upgrades to the next Fedora release that 
> way), as does yum (which is better supported and nowadays also more reliable). 
> And don't forget that Anaconda also supports upgrades (for RHEL, "upgrade" 
> or "upgradeany" is your friend; you can even switch from RHEL/CentOS to Fedora 
> with upgradeany (the opposite will only work properly if your Fedora is 
> completely outdated though)).

You certainly "can", but does it "work"?

behdad

>          Kevin Kofler
>