On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 14:14, beartooth wrote:
>
>>The trick to avoiding problems with Fedora is to wait until towards
>>the end of a version's life. Not past the end - you want a version
>>still being actively used, but you want to be able to immediately
>>do a 'yum update' to pick up the fixes for the problems others have
>>already experienced. FC1 is too old since it is no longer being
>>updated - if you find a new problem it won't be fixed, and FC4 is
>>too new if you don't want to be involved in helping with the fixes.
>>
It's the approach I used to take as a total sub-technoid; and it
was OK, I
guess -- but I did twelve or fifteen installs on five machines over about
three years, and all the keeping up got pretty old pretty fast.
Then one of the first people I asked suggested the opposite tack: start a
new release near the outset, and count on keeping it clear to legacy. So,
like Øyvind Stegard in this thread, but with what must be far less
expertise, I've now done upgrades from FC1, 2, and 3 -- and am glad, so
far.
That's reasonable also if the machine isn't critical or if you already
have 'plan b' for what to do if some needed program doesn't work
or a device driver for your hardware is missing or fails.
I do have a problem with one erstwhile FC1 machine, but that was my
fault
for doing something unusually stupid while reacting to a power failure
that hit just as an install was finishing; it seems unrelated to Fedora,
and I'll look for help elsewhere.
It's a good idea to learn how to save and reinstall your own files and
changes so instead of doing upgrades you can do clean installs of each
new version.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell(a)gmail.com