WARNING:DO NOT UPGRADE TO CORE 4

[Don Dupy]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Ian Malone wrote:

> Deron Meranda <deron.meranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Okay, I think the "don't install on production systems" point has been
>> made loud enough.  Let's not forget that there is no magic line which
>> separates production servers from playboxes.  Some uses will be in
>> that gray area, where it's not quite production or mission critical,
>> but it still gives you grief if it breaks.  There's a whole continuous
>> range of "importance", and that's the call of the user/administrator,
>> which I'm sure Steven is well aware of now.
>
> Where you fall in that gray area should determine how cautious you
> are towards upgrades.  My home machine is important to me in that
> if Linux doesn't run some task my alternative is to boot WinME,
> which is getting more and more painful.  I'm still waiting to upgrade
> to FC4 for the simple reason that I expect things to get broken on
> a new release and that major problems get fixed or documented over
> the first few months.  Problems are going to crop up whenever Fedora
> goes from Test (run on a relatively small number of systems) to Core
> (with people running around trying to get early downloads and
> torrents).  Maybe that should be made clearer to users: the speed you
> upgrade will directly affect the time it will take to iron out problems.
>
> That said I think an all caps warning against upgrading based on one
> users bad experiences is a little alarmist.
>
>

I am still running FC1 on my "production machine" (my home server)

Hey, if it ain't broke............ don't fix it (although I probably 
should do it soon............ ;-) )
-- 
Don Dupy

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