Re: FC5 -- worth upgrading from FC4?

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article
<tuESf.94028$OR.57411@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ignoramus30509 wrote:

I recently upgraded my FC3 box to FC4. So far, so good, most things
seem to work okay.

I would like to know if it would make sense to upgrade from FC4 to FC5
when FC5 comes out. (say, a month from that date when more bugs would
be ironed out).

Would it make sense for me to replace my 2006 FooMobile with the 2006 1/2
when they come out? ;-)

You should upgrade when one of the following occurs:

1. The old version is no longer supported.
2. There is a new shiny feature in the new version you can't live without.
3. You feel that having the highest version numbers is cool.

Would that make sense?

Waiting - yes, but is there any really good reason you need to upgrade?
If you are just a casual user, this probably isn't a big deal. Our upgrade
path begins with several of us taking CDs into the maintenance area, and
loading it onto test boxes and playing with it until we can come to a
consensus of what our new installs should look like. Then we load that
install onto several more systems and mirror representative production
systems for one backup cycle (eight weeks). If nothing earth-shattering
is discovered in that period, we bring in staff on a weekend, and pour
the new installs over the production systems. The following Monday can
be "interesting", but we've only once had to revert to the previous
installation (when we tried to go to Red Hat 4.1 in 1997), and that was
only the print servers.

I checked my kernel version, for example, and I seem to be up to date
even now.

Checked it how? Looking at a mirror, the updates server has nearly 800
packages for FC4, totalling 2.15 Gigabytes. The latest kernel update that
I see is kernel-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 from about 2 weeks ago.

Old guy
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