Horst H. von Brand wrote:
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
[...]
>> What earthly reason would you have to run some old code set, with not
>> even close to guaranteed updates, let alone timely ones, with little
>> man power behind it, and the opportunity to be ignored by most package
>> owners?
> Here's the reason: you have a new computer with hardware supported in
> fedora but not the current RHEL/Centos release -
Lack of care when buying a machine can't be cured by the distribution.
> or you need some
> software feature provided in the newer fedora apps so you install
> fedora.
I was perfectly happy with RH 6.2, and most of what I do now I could do
there, so this can't really be an issue.
> A year passes and you've installed an assortment of
> additional apps and perhaps written some of your own.
Upgrade to next Fedora. Gets easier each time around. A bit of foresight
when installing originally helps much here.
Precisely. The update or upgrades are essentially very simple to handle when
you've got a sane partitioning scheme setup.
Anyone running Fedora (and especially anyone testing updates or rawhide) that
does not have their home on a separate partition is nuts (or new to that
concept). If you have /etc/ /root and /home where they can be safely backed up
and restored, then nuking your entire system for a fresh install is a couple
hours of work at best.
I just fail to see how anyone interested in running Fedora at all cannot find a
few hours every 6 months to handle that.
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