Upgrade from FC6 to FC11

[Excalibur Xcalibur]

I think I'll move to CentOS. That sounds like a good move. :) Thanks for the
feedback.
I was wondering whether I can use yum directly? I'll look into it but if
anybody has done in in the past and/or is aware of the relevant
documentation, please let me know.

-- 
Peter "Excalibur"

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 10:17 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> > It is a little puzzling that when someone asks on a fedora ML how to
> > upgrade Fedora, the answer is often "upgrade to CentOS instead".
>
> It's common enough advice for servers, or other computers where you want
> a long lifespan.  Fedora needs upgrading about once a year to the next
> release, or you'll not have any updates for it, leaving you with unfixed
> bugs, and security problems.  Alternatively, CentOS has a much longer
> support cycle (several years), where you can continue to update packages
> without having to upgrade the entire distribution.
>
> Upgrading can be quite a hassle on servers with data that needs keeping,
> or converting to newer formats, or if you have equipment in a rack that
> will need disassembling to change/add a drive because of boot device
> restrictions.
>
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