Why use Fedora? I like it. 3 year support cycle sounds attractive - but to be honest, Linux software is moving at a rate the updating every year or so is highly recommended - at least for the desktop. The new stuff introduced is just worth it, and upgrading is generally pretty painless (especially if /home is a separate partition).
Hmmm, I take this occasion to tell you my experience. Not sure about painless... Listen, I decided to move from FC3 to FC4 with my PC at home. Nothing important there (not yet) so I simply put the 4 CDs, and chose the 'upgrade' choice.
Everything seemed to be ok. It copied what it needed, made a reboot, but when the system started I had no signs of the FC4 kernel. There were some signatures of FC4, but I realized it simply updgraded some rpms, but not the system. A mixture of FC3 and FC4, but... with a lot of errors, and so on. I had to time to fight with it, so I turned to the CDs and meake a fresh Fc4 installation
I feel quite disappointed by this experience. Maybe I did not understand the meaning of 'update', but this is not what I expected.
I think that the way to make linux (more) popular is to be robust against upgrade. I received a message yesterday of the type 'upgrade: no thanks!'
I am sure I still need to discovery something about this stuff, in any case I appreciate your suggestions of this matter
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