WARNING:DO NOT UPGRADE TO CORE 4

[Mike McCarty]

beartooth wrote:

>On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:56:56 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
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>>Les Mikesell wrote:
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>>>The trick to avoiding problems with Fedora is to wait until towards
>>>the end of a version's life.  Not past the end - you want a version
>>>still being actively used, but you want to be able to immediately
>>>do a 'yum update' to pick up the fixes for the problems others have
>>>already experienced.  FC1 is too old since it is no longer being
>>>updated - if you find a new problem it won't be fixed, and FC4 is
>>>too new if you don't want to be involved in helping with the fixes.
>>> 
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>>That's the approach I've decided to take. I may upgrade from FC2 to FC3 
>>soon.
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>It's the approach I used to take as a total sub-technoid; and it was OK, I
>guess -- but I did twelve or fifteen installs on five machines over about
>three years, and all the keeping up got pretty old pretty fast. 
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Why do that many installs? One doesn't have to go stepwise, you know. I 
may wait
for FC4 to settle down in, say, 6 mo and then go for FC4.

Mike

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