Fedora

[Bill McGonigle]

On Sep 18, 2008, at 15:06, Jarod Wilson wrote:

> Me, I hate stale software, so I tend to always be running at least the
> latest Fedora release, if not the current development tree.


I'm a bit more conservative than Jarod, so I run Fedora about 4-5  
months into the release cycle.  Pretty much all the problems have  
been solved at that point.  Yeah, I'm not a great tester for them,  
but I send them feature patches. :)

My office server has been yum upgraded since Redhat 9 (none of the  
hardware is original anymore except for the CPU).  It's gonna get  
Fedora 9 in the next couple weeks.  Only FC1 to FC2 was tricky - that  
was Linux 2.4 to Linux 2.6.  Some folks had issues when things switch  
from /dev/hd* to /dev/sd* but I didn't, I use md devices for  
everything.  Regardless all the dragons are well-described in the  
support docs, and release notes (the what?).

Bruce, I recall when we went around on this last time most all the  
software you wanted was in Fedora 9.  If it's gonna make it easy to  
get your work done 363 days of the year, and 2 are wasted on admin,  
that's not such a bad trade-off.

-Bill

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