Re: Why Fedora ?

From: gf durin (durin_at_ien.it)
Date: 10/28/05

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    Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:38:04 +0200
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    > Why use Fedora? I like it. 3 year support cycle sounds attractive -
    > but to be honest, Linux software is moving at a rate the updating
    > every year or so is highly recommended - at least for the desktop.
    > The new stuff introduced is just worth it, and upgrading is generally
    > pretty painless (especially if /home is a separate partition).
    >

    Hmmm, I take this occasion to tell you my experience. Not sure about
    painless...
    Listen, I decided to move from FC3 to FC4 with my PC at home. Nothing
    important there (not yet) so I simply put the 4 CDs, and chose the
    'upgrade' choice.

    Everything seemed to be ok. It copied what it needed, made a reboot,
    but when the system started I had no signs of the FC4 kernel. There were
    some signatures of FC4, but I realized it simply updgraded some rpms,
    but not the system. A mixture of FC3 and FC4, but... with a lot of
    errors, and so on. I had to time to fight with it, so I turned to the
    CDs and meake a fresh Fc4 installation

    I feel quite disappointed by this experience. Maybe I did not understand
    the meaning of 'update', but this is not what I expected.

    I think that the way to make linux (more) popular is to be robust
    against upgrade. I received a message yesterday of the type 'upgrade: no
    thanks!'

    I am sure I still need to discovery something about this stuff, in any
    case I appreciate your suggestions of this matter

    Regards

    Gianfranco 

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