Fedora7 or Fedora ?

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Wed May 9 18:25:12 UTC 2007


On 5/9/07, Simon Andrews <simon.andrews at bbsrc.ac.uk> wrote:
> clemens at dwf.com wrote:
> > With Fedora7 being released within a month, I would like to ask where
> > the discussion of Fedora 'N' becoming just Fedora that was going on a
> > month or two ago went.
> >
> > I find it irritating (if not impossible) to have to reinstall with each new
> > release of Fedora, and having an OS that could be continuously updated
> > would be a real plus.
>
> What makes you think that you can't update between different Fedora
> versions?  I've got servers here that have done every update from FC1 -
> FC6.  All that happens is that when a new version of Fedora comes out I
> stick the CD in, choose the update option and let it do it's thing.
> I've had nothing more than the most minor of issues when updating this way.
>
>  > I realize that during 'initial' development this is difficult, but
>  > since we are at '7' it seems that Fedora should be as smart
>
> None of the major distributions I'm aware of do continuous updates
> (maybe Gentoo does??), they all have major releases which then receive
> minor updates throughout their life.  Debian, Suse, Mandriva and Ubuntu
> all operate this way.  Fedora is no different.  Some changes are BIG
> (Xfree > Xorg, selinux, GCC versions etc) so a concerted and well tested
> release is a good way to handle these sorts of transitions.

In SuSE/openSUSE you just change the Installation Source.

> Simon.
>




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