Fedora 12

12 was released a few days ago and despite my usual "let the other
gut find the problems" approach I upgraded a recent Fedora 11 install. The
11 install was less that two weeks ago on a new machine.

1) It took forever. The install and upgrade times seem to be in direct
proportion to the release number.

2) The first thing I did was a yum upgrade (essentially the same as update)
and it is now in the process of downloading 2.5 GB of upgrade/update
material.

3) Huh!?! This is more than double my usual month or two procrastination
requires to upgrade.

3a) Note: most changes are in fast developing apps. What you see in your
regular upgrades would appear to be a lot more than this but an upgrade
after install should only see the most recent.

I am aware that a release needs be frozen long before the release
date to work out the bugs. This might as well have been frozen just after
Fedora 11 was released. The entire install disk is only 3.5GB.

Is Redhat telling me to use network install?

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