Boxed version of Fedora

[Ian Weller]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Eugene Teo wrote:
> <quote sender="Gian Paolo Mureddu">
>> Ian Weller escribió:
>>> How does Ubuntu do it?  I remember upgrading my sister's computer with
>>> one click, and it appeared to work perfectly -- until she decided to
>>> unplug the computer during the upgrade. >.<  I have no clue what the end
>>> result would've been, but it was probably the best upgrade interface
>>> ever.
>>
>> I'm not sure how does Ubuntu do it, but it shouldn't be too hard to find 
>> out by dissecting it and going through the sources. At any rate it has been 
>> brought up before and the general consensus is that upgraded systems do 
>> suffer performance degradation in one way or another, mainly due to 
>> settings sticking from previous versions and the like. Still there should 
>> be a way to upgrade without suffering that performance hit, sadly I 
>> couldn't say how to do it. Every time it is mentioned, though, is 
>> disregarded; or at least, that's what it looks like.

A fallback system would be nice, but it needs to be an option, because
not everyone has enough hard drive space.