[NTLUG:Discuss] Fedora 15

[Stuart Johnston]

On 06/28/2011 04:29 AM, Ralph Green wrote:
> Howdy,
>    I just tried to update a Fedora 14 system to Fedora 15 tonight.  It
> did not work, and to be fair, their wiki warned me.  I am still in shock
> that they would not support upgrades at all.  I can only think of one
> reason, and it is not polite, so I won't say.  Is there any good reason
> upgrades are not supported?  I can backup my data directories, but how
> would I know what programs need to be reinstalled to get me back in
> operation?  This seems like a needlessly user hostile decision by
> RedHat.

I've always gotten the impression from the RedHat distros that in-place 
upgrades were discouraged.  This is one of the reasons I prefer 
Debian/Ubuntu.