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From: 007*** on 6 Jan 2008 19:05 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? Cheers.
From: Andy Cap on 7 Jan 2008 01:47 On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:05:22 +0000, 007*** <ianoverhere(a)supanet.com> 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? > >Cheers. I *think* your problem is that Fedora is a kind of test bed for Redhat and therefore is updated quite frequently. When Fedora 9 appears there will no longer be support for Fedora 7. I was using 7 and tried the update route to 8 but had a lot of problems and eventually did a clean install - as is recommended by Fedora writers anyway. I'm now in the same position as you, entirely happy with my current install and reluctant to change in the near future. I suspect that if you're behind a router and running the standard firewall, you're very unlikely to experience problems, even if you never update again, but it would be interesting to hear from the experts. FWIW, I along with several others, run Asterisk on Fedora Core 6. Others use Core 4 and I believe a few are still using Core 2, so operationally there's no problem. Andy
From: Andy Burns on 7 Jan 2008 04:33 On 07/01/2008 00:05, 007*** wrote: > I am using Fedora 7 live which is now fully installed ok, so you're just running fedora 7 now. > 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?). Yes, you have a fully updated fedora7, the updates are mainly for security, sometimes a few update to newer versions (e.g. you'll now be on a newer kernel rather than a patched older one) > Does this mean I don't need to bother > upgrading to Fedora 8? You don't need to upgrade yet, although f7+patches is different from f8, shortly after f9 is released, f7 will stop receiving updates, so you *ougt* to upgrade at that point (this is a non-destructive process) > Or are there other advantages to upgrading? Latest features, if you want them. If you want to upgrade less frequently instead of having latest features then Centos may be a better choice for you. Redhat funds a lot of fedora development, other work is voluntary, this leads to fedora being quite bleeding edge, then every "nth" fedora release plus its patches gets turned into a redhat commercial release, which in turn by a volunteer communtity gets turned into centos (and others like ScientificLinux)
From: Will Kemp on 7 Jan 2008 05:47 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. There's not a lot of point in upgrading to 8 if you don't need to though. If you've happy with the way your system works now, you might as well leave it the way it is for a while. So long as you haven't got any open ports (e.g., ssh, ftp, etc) you don't need to worry about security updates much. When you do move to 8 (or 9, or whatever), i'd definitely recommend doing a clean install, rather than an upgrade, though. An upgrade should work in most situations, but the whole thing is so mindbogglingly complex now that the developers can't cover every possible variation - and things don't always work exactly as planned. I always have a separate partition for /home on my laptop. I also keep a spare partition for testing out different distros etc, and when i reinstall, i install the new version to the spare partition and boot to that. That way, the old install is still there on the other partition (for months sometimes) - in case there's anything i've forgotten to copy across (e.g., scripts from /usr/local, configs from /etc, etc...) I find about 15GB is more than adequate for the OS partition - with whatever's left for /home.
From: alexd on 7 Jan 2008 07:23
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:03:42 +0000, Paul Martin wrote: > In article <a7i3o3tah86s63crt0lj5069u1rnjpvag2(a)4ax.com>, > Andy Cap wrote: > >> I was using 7 and tried the update route to 8 but had a lot of problems >> and eventually did a clean install - as is recommended by Fedora >> writers anyway. > > I'm wondering why this is still a problem with RH-derived distributions. The packaging system. I run Debian at home and I find using Fedora at work to be an utter pain. All my debian systems have been through several iterations without recourse to a reinstall. 'apt-get dist-upgrade' always does the trick. -- <http://ale.cx/> (AIM:troffasky) (UnSoEsNpEaTm(a)ale.cx) 12:15:58 up 2 days, 2:40, 2 users, load average: 0.86, 1.29, 1.18 2x Broadband/IT/Telecoms support positions in Newcastle city centre. For more info call 0191 229 8870 and ask for Steve. No agencies. |