On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 14:14, beartooth wrote: > > > >>The trick to avoiding problems with Fedora is to wait until towards > >>the end of a version's life. Not past the end - you want a version > >>still being actively used, but you want to be able to immediately > >>do a 'yum update' to pick up the fixes for the problems others have > >>already experienced. FC1 is too old since it is no longer being > >>updated - if you find a new problem it won't be fixed, and FC4 is > >>too new if you don't want to be involved in helping with the fixes. > >> > It's the approach I used to take as a total sub-technoid; and it was OK, I > guess -- but I did twelve or fifteen installs on five machines over about > three years, and all the keeping up got pretty old pretty fast. > > Then one of the first people I asked suggested the opposite tack: start a > new release near the outset, and count on keeping it clear to legacy. So, > like �vind Stegard in this thread, but with what must be far less > expertise, I've now done upgrades from FC1, 2, and 3 -- and am glad, so > far. That's reasonable also if the machine isn't critical or if you already have 'plan b' for what to do if some needed program doesn't work or a device driver for your hardware is missing or fails. > I do have a problem with one erstwhile FC1 machine, but that was my fault > for doing something unusually stupid while reacting to a power failure > that hit just as an install was finishing; it seems unrelated to Fedora, > and I'll look for help elsewhere. It's a good idea to learn how to save and reinstall your own files and changes so instead of doing upgrades you can do clean installs of each new version. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
