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From: Andy Burns on 7 Jan 2008 07:48 On 07/01/2008 12:23, alexd wrote: > All my debian systems have been through several > iterations without recourse to a reinstall. 'apt-get dist-upgrade' always > does the trick. I only have one debian box and though I did upgrade it entirely remotely over SSH, there were some gotchas to worry about, similarly I upgraded my FC6 box to F7 using a yum update, had a few 3rd party dependencies to work around, but all went OK.
From: 007*** on 9 Jan 2008 14:07
Will Kemp wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:05:22 +0000, 007*** wrote: > > >> I am using Fedora 7 live which is now fully installed and has worked >> great from the start and everything just worked, printer internet >> everything. So I like it. I have been downloading the updates ( I think >> there only security updates?). Does this mean I don't need to bother >> upgrading to Fedora 8? Or are there other advantages to upgrading? >> > > I went straight from 6 to 8, so i don't know what 7's like. But there are > definitely improvements from 7 to 8, which you won't get with just the > updates. > > The updates aren't only security updates, there's lots of bug fixes etc - > and sometimes new versions of things. > > Thanks to everyone. I guess the main difference is latest desktop versions of Gnome/KDE and a general "new look" to the install/boot process and desktop backgrounds. New kernel is updated by the updates. |