Upgrade RedHat 9 to Fedora

[Mike McCarty]

Stewart Williams wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>> Stewart Williams wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> If you have really important data like that, then you might want
>>>> to reconsider whether FCx is an "upgrade". FC is, in effect, a
>>>> beta test release.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Are you saying that every "stable" release of Fedora is actually on 
>>> classed as a "beta test" release?
>>>
>>> If this is so, then why call it a "stable" release? I run FC on many 
>>> production servers and have found them to be very reliable.
>>
>>
>>
>> Where have you ever seen me refer to an FCx release as stable?
>>
>> As I have used the terms for decades:
>>
>>     alpha test    test done by development engineers
>>     beta test    test done by customers
>>
>> Since all FC releases are intended for test by customers (see
>> the website) they are all beta test releases.
>>
>> I am not an FC developer.
>>
>> Mike
> 
> 
> I didn't mean you refer to them as stable, I mean't the Fedora project. 
> They usually issue 2 or 3 test releases then a release that they 
> consider stable, but people keep saying they are not stable enough and 


Perhaps you should consider them as "preliminary" and "bug fix"
releases rather than "test" and "stable". That's how I see it.

> are too bleeding-edge. So why do people use it on servers then?
> 
> Sorry to go off the subject of this thread, but this keep baffling me as 
> a newcomer to Linux.

It baffles me as a user of computers. TANSTAAFL[*] as Heinlein
always said. FC is what it is. One thing it is: it is free.
Perhaps some think that there *is* a free lunch.

Just my $0.02 worth.


* Derived from the English proverb "There ain't no such thing
as a free lunch." IOW, one has to pay for everything, perhaps
not in obvious ways. Or "If it seems too good to be true, it
probably isn't." The meanings are many, but all devolve down to
"if something is worth anything, it's going to cost somebody
somewhere". It refers specifically to the "a chicken in every
pot" promises made by the socialist (we call them "progressives"
over here) candidates for office in the 1920s. Sometimes, but
not often, used to refer to outright fraud.

Mike
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