Affraid to Upgrade from FC9 to FC12

[Konstantin Svist]

On 11/12/2009 09:43 AM, Roger wrote:
> The question really comes down to how important the constant upgrades 
> really are to each of us.

Not quite. I lived very happily with F8 (KDE3.5) until 11 came out. Mind 
you, it was because KDE4 sucked, but that's another discussion. By F11, 
though, there was 0 support for F8 - no security fixes, no shiny new 
features (20sec boot, anyone?). At some point I want to get the new stuff.


> Golly I have difficulty with upgrades because the kmod-nvidia and 
> kernel upgrades have a time difference and Blender stops working. I 
> could never get akmod-nvidia working successfully.

That sucks :( At least AMD has released the necessary info for improving 
radeon driver - so far it works on all ATI cards I have.
Don't know if you've heard, but nvidia is not planning to do the same 
for their cards.


>  Your first * problem is solved with a spare hard drive which lets you 
> experiment. What if you spent 10 percent of your time every week on 
> the new op system, a couple of weeks and it's done.

This allows me to get the feel of the new system, yes - but it doesn't 
provide the complete picture. And just try telling my boss I'll spend 
10% of my time tweaking the new system - he'll axe-murder you.


> From what you wrote in the first email, it's not the upgrade but the 
> tweeking that will take your time as it did for your current operating 
> system and if you made notes of successful alterations you have a good 
> starting point for the tweeks.

It sounds like you think I'm the OP; I'm not :)
But your point is valid - I also make a lot of tweaks in my system. And 
sure, it's not hard redoing all that work.
But my point was -- why should I have to?? Most programs can be upgraded 
in-place and keep using the previously defined settings. I've cleaned 
up/merged many .rpmnew and .rpmsave configs without any problems. And 
I've seen a new package completely replace an old package in a regular 
update.
So what's the goal/point of upgrades?

Just saying...