--- On Sat, 11/13/10, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com> wrote:
Patrick Bartek <bartek047(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
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> Fedora's release cycles when it was Fedora Core used
to be longer and
> not on a strict schedule as it is now. A new
version was released
> when it was ready. Fedora now has become a rapid
release test bed,
> an eternal beta if you will, and we are the
testers. But that's
> okay, since the "good" stuff eventually gets into RHEL
and its clones
> making them more stable and more secure with a longer
life.
While it wasn't quite exactly 6months, it was pretty close.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Linux#Version_history
I never used RH Linux. The project was merged with Fedora about 2 years before I first
installed Fedora Core 3. Although, I was aware of FC1 & 2, they seemed to have too
many problems to be considered.
As I remember releases from then were semi-regular from 5 months to 7 or 8. I think when
Fedora Core was renamed Fedora with version 7 that a 6 month release cycle was decided as
being optimum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_(operating_system)#Version_history
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> Also, upgrading Fedora every 6 months or so as most do
on this list
> just means additional headaches and work of a couple
months of fixing
> the problems with the "new" OS when the "old" one was
running just
> fine, but is fast approaching "unsupported."
This is my major
> "problem" with Fedora, and mostly why I only upgrade
every third
> release--Why make more work for myself?--and why I'm
considering
> switching to a long term support version of Linux,
whatever that may
> be.
I almost never have issues on os upgrades anymore. The last
2 machines
here I upgraded from 13->14 just worked. I didn't have
to change
anything at all.
I avoided the upgrade process when I was installing every release, because at the time
(FC3-6), it was at best problematical, and only did clean installs for that reason. After
6, I started installing only every third release, so true upgrading was impossible.
It seems that Fedora with the preupgrade utility has made the process much more reliable.
However, it still doesn't work across more than one release number at a time, i.e.
12->13, 13->14 and not 12->14.
B