Peter Connolly wrote: > I've had to put up with some amount of abuse about using Red Hat > distros. And one of the principal complaints that I've heard over the > years about Red Hat and Fedora is that you do all your upgrades with a > lot of CDs (or one DVD) and even then the prospect of them working was > dicey at best. Debian and Ubuntu distros have supported major version > upgrades (that work) for quite a while. I think that Fedora 7 is the > first of Red Hat lineage to offer a major version upgrade via 'yum'. > Is that right? Nope, I have a remote server that came with FC1 and has been continuously upgraded through to FC6 without problems. yum has been around for many Fedora versions too and has always been able to sort out a whole dist upgrade. I think I would begin to suspect I was hearing generic FUD and not "abuse"... -Andy
