How to upgrade from RH8 to FC? Is it safe?

[Philip Walden]

The Nice Spider wrote:
>> On 3/1/07, The Nice Spider <thenicespider at yahoo.com>
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> wrote:
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>>> If I want to upgrade RH8 to FC then which version
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> of
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>>> FC should I use?
>>> Is it safe to upgrade from RH to FC? Please share
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> your
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>>> experience here to help me.
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>> Are you trolling? RH8 uses 2.4 kernel. FC uses 2.6.
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> Libraries,
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>> compiliers and most everything that else have
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> changed. Do not upgrade!
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>> Do a backup. Do new install.
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> How about RH8 to RH 9 then FC? Is it possible?
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I have upgraded RH9 -> FC4 -> FC5

This was a desktop, with some server services (vsftp, ssh, httpd, ...). 
I recall it took about week to clean it up to my satisfaction afterwards.