Fedora Infinity: A Dumb Question?
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Aug 6 22:48:57 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 16:25 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 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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I have used preupgrade and it worked.
But preupgrade wasn't what Armin recommended or talked about.
Craig
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