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Posted Oct 10, 2025 9:07 UTC (Fri) by pizza (subscriber, #46)In reply to: 26.04 next by rsidd
Parent article: Ubuntu 25.10 released
You're thinking RHEL (+derivatives).
As a matter of official policy, Fedora fully supports (and QAs) upgrade-in-place, from both version N-1 and N-2.
(The laptop I'm typing this on has been upgraded-in-place for >5years, my workstation for over a decade, and the oldest of the numerous server instances I have running was first installed in 2007 [1])
[1] It would have dated back to RHL5.0 in 1997, but a major hardware and architecture upgrade (to x86_64) happened.
Posted Oct 10, 2025 12:42 UTC (Fri)
by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
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by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
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If it ain't broke, DON'T FIX IT!
Cheers,
Posted Oct 11, 2025 15:36 UTC (Sat)
by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
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For some, it may be a necessity. For us, no. Last year some of us discovered that much of our critical infrastructure (firewall, mail server, web server...) was running on recycled nodes from an HPC cluster dating to 2005, thanks to a brilliant but cantankerous sysadmin. These were absolutely cutting edge for the time, but we have the budget to upgrade and there was no excuse for using them in 2024. Of course, we found out only when there was a dire outage...
Posted Oct 11, 2025 13:40 UTC (Sat)
by pizza (subscriber, #46)
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It's very much a Server-of-Theseus.
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Wol
Shame and pride, perhaps.
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