Fedora and its editions

Posted Dec 9, 2020 21:40 UTC (Wed) by magfr (subscriber, #16052)
In reply to: Fedora and its editions by jccleaver
Parent article: Fedora and its editions

While CentOS did exist Fedora still provided better support for a basic server of some sort since the upgrade story for Fedora beats the one of CentOS.

CentOS upgrade story:
Upgrade? Please do a reinstall.

Fedora upgrade story:
Yes, every six months.

Fedora and its editions

Posted Dec 9, 2020 22:19 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (2 responses)

>CentOS upgrade story:
> Upgrade? Please do a reinstall.
> Fedora upgrade story:
> Yes, every six months.

Neither is really true. While it is possible to do live upgrades in CentOS (and RHEL has commercial support for it - https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_ent... ), a long lifecyle and the way large enterprises manage these systems usually meant provisioning new systems is easier rather than upgrades.

Fedora - You don't have to upgrade every six months. You can skip every other releases and upgrade about once a year.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle

Fedora and its editions

Posted Dec 10, 2020 1:34 UTC (Thu) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75) [Link]

I think the point of the "every 6 months" line was that Fedora is built around regular updates. They test their update process, and breaking it would be a release blocker.

Fedora and its editions

Posted Dec 10, 2020 12:03 UTC (Thu) by dowdle (subscriber, #659) [Link]

No, CentOS has never supported upgrading from one major release to another. Period. While RHEL has such a feature, the software for that never got picked up by CentOS. They simply were not interested in it and no one stepped up to even make an attempt. While there are several recipes on various third-party HOWTO sites, they (often) led to completely broken systems and people looking for help in the #centos Freenode IRC channel... only to discover they will be resorting to backup.

Minor version upgrades however were like butter.