Upgrade process from FC3 to FC4?

Guy Fraser guy at incentre.net
Wed May 18 15:00:03 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-18-05 at 09:37 -0500, 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.

Good point. I only upgraded once in the past 10 years, and ended 
up with all kinds of left over cruft, and the old apps weren't in 
the menu. The way the menu works now is much different and it may 
be worth wile trying another upgrade.




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