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Fedora Legacy end-of-life announcements

Fedora Legacy end-of-life announcements

Posted Jul 24, 2006 19:08 UTC (Mon) by dang (guest, #310)
In reply to: Fedora Legacy end-of-life announcements by jimmybgood
Parent article: Fedora Legacy end-of-life announcements

One might also add that (a) it is pretty damn painless to upgrade between FC releases and (b) it has always been amply clear that for one's production server environment an Enterprise distro is the preferred way to go.


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Fedora Legacy end-of-life announcements

Posted Jul 27, 2006 18:52 UTC (Thu) by tseaver (subscriber, #1544) [Link]

> (a) it is pretty damn painless to upgrade between FC releases

I don't think so. First, upgrading via yum is *not* a supported mechanism; even though it is possible, it is too risky to attempt remotely.

It was particularly painful for the earliest FC releases (the ones now being
EOL'ed).

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