WARNING:DO NOT UPGRADE TO CORE 4

[Guy Fraser]

On Tue, 2005-12-07 at 14:20 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> beartooth wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:56:56 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Les Mikesell wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>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.
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>That's the approach I've decided to take. I may upgrade from FC2 to FC3 
> >>soon.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >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. 
> >  
> >
> 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.

That is the life of the distro!

> 
> Mike
> 
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