Upgrade process from FC3 to FC4?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Wed May 18 14:45:26 UTC 2005


On Wed, 18 May 2005, Basil Copeland wrote:

> On 5/18/05, Matt Florido <matt at floridonet.com> wrote:
>
> > It will be interesting to see how well the upgrade process works.
> > In my experience, it has always been better to simply backup
> > existing necessary files/folders and do a clean install.
>
> Normally I stay away from upgrades also.  But I'm thinking about it
> this time, if for no other reason than hearing that some of my
> essential features -- xfce4 and nedit, for example -- will not be
> part of the available packages.

i'm not sure that's a compelling reason.  i'm sure you'll be able to
get those FC4-ready rpms from *somewhere*, even if they're not part of
the official distro.

rday




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