On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:41:09 AM Eric Myers wrote: > I've become frustrated with Fedora because of the difficulty of upgrading > without just doing a fresh install, and the fact that then the installer > no longer gives you a chance to do your own disk partitioning, though I > may have found a way around this using their kickstart installer. It > appears to me that Fedora is now driven strongly by the server market and > less interested in improving the user interface. >
I've been using Fedora as my main distro since FC5 (approx 2006). For the past several releases (I don't recall exactly how many, perhaps since F12) I've upgraded using "preupgrade" rather than doing a fresh install. For me, this has been problem free and *far* more convenient than fresh install. Preupgrade is officially supported by Fedora (unlike upgrade via yum). As a comment to OP, I find it helpful to maintain several distros (Fedora and Ubuntu) and multiboot. It greatly helps troubleshooting when something goes wrong on one distro to boot the other and compare. Furthermore, I duplicate this multiboot setup on two PCs, so if there is a hardware issue on one, I can troubleshoot by comparing behavior on the other. _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Jun 6 - Why the Web Needs HTML5 Jul 11 - Mad Science Fair - Open Hardware Expo Aug 1 - Pimp My Network
