Hi,
I am trying to make a decision on what distro. to choose for professional use (involving the usual stuff: PDA-sync., External Monitors, Projectors, Presentations, Video Conference...).
I have been using RH9 (happily so) since it came out, until I reinstalled everything to have FC1, due to an extremely troublesome "upgrade", which produced crashes every 30 seconds.
After that awful experience, and bearing in mind that FC will very likely ship a new version every few months, I wonder if I could use
# apt-get dist-upgrade
ALL THE TIME, whenever a new version comes out, much in the same way as Debian users do when they want to avoid reinstalling every few months.
In other words, do ONE and only one installation of Fedora Core 1, and then rely on apt to have the installation upgraded whenever updates / new versions are released.
Is the portage of apt to FC1 poweful and bug-free enough to ensure proper version upgrades?
I've upgraded 3 RH 9 system to FC1. Other than missing a few new packages like acpid. I had no issues. Yum upgrade seems to work as well. All I need to do was the following:
rpm -Uvh up2date-4.1.16-1.i386.rpm --force --nodeps rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY* rpm -Uvh apt-0.5.15cnc1-0.fdr.3.1.i386.rpm vi /etc/sources (Point things to my personal mirror.) apt-get update apt-get distupgrade
-- There is no such thing as obsolete hardware. Merely hardware that other people don't want. (The Second Rule of Hardware Acquisition) Sam Flory <sflory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
