Sam Barnett-Cormack said: > Given the track record with redhat of how often upgrades go wrong, The upgrade on my laptop from RHL9 to FC1 went completely without problems. > and > the fact that such an upgrade requires more downtime, I think a lot of > people will worry about that. I would prefer more planned downtime than the downtime that comes from breaking something. All upgrades will require downtime, some more than others. As I said in a previous post, trying to get a distro to upgrade through yum, etc. isn't a bad thing, just as long as people understand that it may not be possible in some cases (like FC1 -> FC2 IMHO). APIs, config files, library versions change, and trying to change these while you are using them can cause Bad Things (tm). > Is fedora there to provide a good distro to users, or to exploit users > to redhat's commercial benefit? You'll have to pardon me for not looking over my shoulder for the black heliocopters... Fedora IS the community. So the community is there to provide a good distro to the community. You would probably do well to get over the "I'm a user, Fedora owes me..." mentality. -- William Hooper
