On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 21:51 -0500, Charles Malespin wrote: > Hi all, > I have been using Yum ex for a while and I really like it. My > question is, should I pretty much download all the updates that are > offered from the "base" and "updates released" repos? I dont know what > alot of that stuff does, I am really new to linux, but I dont want to > not download something just cause I personally dont know/think I need > it. Any advice with updates for a newbie? > Charles > Yes. you should update the all official fedora updates it would be a large update. Also if you use repository such as freshrpms to install mplayer if the site offer update. you should update also..