Greetings all
I am quite new to this list, although I am a long time Linux admin (and
even longer time Unix admin).
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 00:24 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
I also saw a post on -devel-list which suggests that x86-64 builds
didn't
make it to rawhide for the last daily compose, which could be
problematic. Now may not be the best time to jump in.
I can only verify this. At the moment yum wants to update most of my
system to .i586 packages which luckily fails big time because of
dependency conflicts.
Rahul's reply gives you very sound and sensible advice which you
should
follow. Personally, though, I have Rawhide installed and updated daily
on my main work system, because I'm a gigantic fool. (I'm also the kind
of guy who does strict regular backups of his mail server...every
year...)
:-D I work in a windows-dominated environment. We have just rolled out
new PC's to everyone (switching from XP to Vista) while also enforcing a
new rule; only one PC for each employee. Meaning you get either a
desktop PC or a laptop. So my laptop is also my main work desktop. And
in this windows-centric anvironment using OCS, exchange, Sharepoint and
so on my laptop runs Fedora. And not only Fedora, it runs Rawhide. And
not only rawhide. You may guess it... I run x86_64. Asking for trouble?
Oh, yes. Getting it? Oh, yes! Loving it? Oh, yes!!! I feel like a
giraffe, sticking my neck that far out.
By the way... At the present my system needs to reboot quite often
(reminds me of windows, actually), so I really love the new boot
optimisations combined with SSD. From grub starts it's less than 10
seconds until the graphical login is ready. I assume these instabilities
will go away as soon as gcc is debugged and everything rebuilt. Well...
At least some of them.
neither my main work system nor my mail server have broken down
irretrievably and left me weeping tears of frustration and self-loathing
yet, but that doesn't mean a) i'm not an idiot or b) they won't do so in
future. So listen to Rahul, not me. :)
I don't listen to anybody! :-D Not even to myself!