On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 12:54 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Bruce Labitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a Fedora 10? or is that in alpha? > > The current "general release" is Fedora 9. > > From my point of view, the Fedora project is *always* in > development/testing mode for the next release. The stated goal of the > Fedora Project is to provide a platform for the latest and greatest > ideas in Open Source. They target a general release every six months, > but work for "the next release" is always happening. That can be a > good thing or an irritation, depending on what you want. > > > Can one "relatively painlessly" upgrade from Fedora 9 to 10?
Yes. > The official upgrade path for Fedora is to download disc images for > the latest release, burn and boot from disc, and follow the prompts to > upgrade. > > I've read several reports about upgrading the running system > in-place, using yum, but they always come with big warnings about how > they're unofficial, not supported, here there be dragons, etc. I wish we'd just suck it up and officially support it, since it tends to work just peachy 99% of the time. That's exactly how I upgrade pretty much *all* my boxes from one release to another. > The actual upgrade mechanism itself tends to work pretty well -- Red > Hat's been doing this for 15 or so years, and they've gotten the > techniques down. > > The problems arise from the packages being upgraded. They don't > always work so well. Fedora is not afraid to scrap old ideas and try > new ones. Sometimes the new ideas don't actually work so well. > Sometimes they try something for one release and then abandon it for > the next. Again, that's stated up-front: They're willing to sacrifice > some backwards compatibility to advance the state of the art. Indeed. While yes, to some extent, it is the "Red Hat Enterprise Linux sandbox", its still very much a goal to put out a stable release with shiny new features. We do *try* to not push new features unless they're actually ready, but hey, you gotta break some eggs to make an omelette... :) > I currently run Fedora at home. It's kind of neat to be able to > check out the latest neat features and cool software. Having to > upgrade every 12 months to maintain security updates is annoying. Me, I hate stale software, so I tend to always be running at least the latest Fedora release, if not the current development tree. > It's not really a "good" or "bad" by itself, but know what you're > subscribing to. Definitely. Fedora is geared toward pushing the envelope with new technologies and features, with a more developer-centric feel than, say, Ubuntu, which is geared towards polishing tried and true technologies and features (that often appeared in the prior Fedora release... ;). Really, Ubuntu does something very similar to what Red Hat does when a new RHEL release is forked off of Fedora, they just do it on a more frequent release schedule, and Debian-based instead of Fedora-based. :) -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/