New to Fedora

[Joe Giles]

Hello list,

I used to run Red Hat 6,7,8,9, but have not ran Fedora as of yet. I 
currently use Gentoo for my workstation and have been wanting to try out 
Fedora. I have heard good things about it and appreciate the community 
and support.

I have a couple of questions I would like to ask if you could spare a 
moment of your time...

1. Once Fedora is installed, and a new version comes out (Say "Fedora 
4"), will updating my system using up2date or yum install the current 
packages for the new version on my system; thereby updating the system 
with the same new software as the new release ("Fedora 4")? I like to 
keep my systems around for a while and don't like to reload the OS very 
often.

2. Does the RPM package manager still suffer issues with dependencies as 
it used to? Example... Trying to install "Package 1" reveals Dependant 
packages needing to be installed, reveling yet more packages that need 
to be installed to satisfy the last Dependant package; wash, rinse, and 
repeat. Will up2date and/or yum take care of these dependencys for you now?

I appreciate your time in answering these questions for me.

Thanks!!!

Joe