[NTLUG:Discuss] Fedora 15

[Wayne Walker]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 04:29:24AM -0500, 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.
> Ralph

What went wrong Ralph?

RedHat doesn't own Fedora (they can exert a lot of pressure, but they
don't run Fedora).

I upgraded 3 different machines from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15.  I even
upgraded each one _while_I_was_actively_using_it_in_X_, while the live
upgrade is officially unsupported, they make sure that it works.

I also recently, remotely, upgraded a friend of mine's machine from
Fedora 10 to 11, then to 12, then to 13, then to 14, all while he used
it as his only home machine.  Upon reboot after the final upgrade
finishied, everything worked fine.  Since the Gnome 3 boys decided you
had to have a high end 3d card for a useful desktop experience, I didn't
upgrade his poor tired old machine to F15.

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