Fedora Infinity: A Dumb Question?
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed Aug 6 21:25:59 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 01:45 -0300, Armin wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 August 2008 23:50:19 kwhiskerz wrote:
> > That was a lot of answers. I guess I get the drift. I have tried Rawhide,
> > but found it too much work, except when it gets close to a release and I
> > just can't wait any longer. It sure would be nice if one didn't have to
> > keep reinstalling twice a year and still have the latest. Well, someone,
> > someday may figure it out. Rawhide is not for me. Too much work.
> the thing about Fedora or any other Linux distro is that you don't have to
> reinstall it everyday like Windows (or every week if you're lucky). You can
> just have one installation for years. For that, refer to yum upgrade. you
> don't have to reinstall the whole thing! just upgrade it :D
> --
> Armin
>
I have not used preupgrade but historically the result of upgrading has
not been very satisfactory. Many posts on fedora-list have made this
clear. And of course there is a limited time before upgrading is no
longer supported.
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