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- inactive, on 11/25/2008, -4/+19is it wrong that i've been counting down the days until the release?
- ezran, on 11/25/2008, -3/+12well, you ruined it..
- Otto, on 11/25/2008, -1/+10Agreed, for a server environment, you shouldn't have Fedora on the thing anyway. Stick with Centos for stability. Run Fedora on your own machine for development and a work environment.
- Otto, on 11/25/2008, -0/+8Fedora 10 adds that sort of functionality now, you can run the preupgrade program through the normal PackageKit installer, for future upgrades.
- sexybobo, on 11/25/2008, -1/+8If you are asking how to update ubuntu to the latest version.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade - klitzbtc, on 11/25/2008, -0/+6Why are you running fedora on your "production" server and not rhel or centos. Figure that out first.
- Otto, on 11/25/2008, -0/+6I've been using the Fedora 10 beta for quite some time now, and it's quite spiffy. Fast, efficient, easy.
Of course, upgrading for me will now just be a matter of just doing a "yum upgrade". :)
If you're running any old Fedora installs, then upgrading easily is just a matter of running the "preupgrade" program and selecting which version to upgrade to. If you don't have it, do a "yum install preupgrade" to install it. - Otto, on 11/25/2008, -0/+61. Back up your important files (always a good idea anyway).
2. yum install preupgrade
3. su to root
4. preupgrade - klitzbtc, on 11/25/2008, -3/+9Did a fresh install of the 64bit version this morning. Works great, fast as all hell, all the newest stuff.
Adobes 64bit flash plugin works great.
No disappointments so far, a much better improvement from the bleeding edge fedora 9. - mooninite, on 11/25/2008, -2/+7The nVidia driver that supports X.org 1.5 has been out for months. Where have you been?
RPM package management has been made easy with the invention of YUM several years ago. Where have you been? - klitzbtc, on 11/25/2008, -0/+4Depending on the last version you ran, I would have to say that it's definitely not fat or clunky anymore. 7 was pretty quick, 8 got bloated a bit, 9 was a disaster, but 10 is a real turn around. I'd check it out. I'm running it right now on my desktop and I'm definitely back to being a fedora fanboy.
- cawpin, on 11/25/2008, -4/+8Do you want it to magically do it for you? I've upgraded my home server from 6.04 all the way to 8.04 without incident. There's nothing wrong with Ubuntu's procedure.
- jvincent08, on 11/25/2008, -1/+4Laziness doesn't make it broken.
But sure, use whatever works best for you. Just don't go around insulting a distro just because you didn't like it. - markscott65, on 11/25/2008, -0/+3I think the latest Fedora/Ubuntu releases are basically on par with each other now. Both have live CDs you can boot from to try without touching your machine. If you haven't ran Linux in years, then you'll have a pleasant surprise.... For anyone who is happily running the latest offerings from Fedora or Ubuntu, there is probably no compelling reason to switch to the other.
- Shadowman, on 11/25/2008, -1/+4Don't believe the Red Hat bashing "RPM hell" comments you read on digg. They only show ignorance.
- Otto, on 11/25/2008, -0/+2If you've been upgrading on a regular basis, then you might have gotten upgraded early. Mine switched over to the F10 repos from Rawhide early last week. There's been some updates since then, but not many.
Anyway, the default setting for yum is to only recheck like once a day anyway, so even if you manually run it, it might not notice changes for up to 24 hours. You can force it with a "yum clean all" followed by a "yum check-update". That'll redownload the package lists and such. - motang, on 11/25/2008, -1/+3Yeah I am really digging the 64bit Flash. As soon as it came out I redid my system with Ubuntu 8.10 64bit version and Flash 10 has been great.
- Gman1223, on 11/26/2008, -2/+4Really? Would you care to give us a well educated and informed statement as to why it should? (and don't ***** use google).
- pumafi, on 11/26/2008, -2/+3Some USA Mirrors(ISO Images):
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/10/
http://proyectos.pixelamigo.com/software/fedora/10 ...
http://mirror.lib.ucdavis.edu/fedora/linux/release ...
http://fedora.secsup.org/linux/releases/10/Fedora/
http://mirror.nuvio.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/ ...
http://fedora.osuosl.org/linux/releases/10/Fedora/
http://mirror.engr.sjsu.edu/pub/fedora/10/Fedora/
http://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/fedora.redhat.com/fed ...
http://mirror.hiwaay.net/pub/fedora/linux/releases ...
http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/linux/releases/1 ... - jvincent08, on 11/25/2008, -0/+1Cool, thanks. I must've gotten it early then, cause I'm all up to date :)
- volcompimp, on 11/26/2008, -0/+1No thanks... But I will say that I've been familiar w/ Red Hat and RPM distros since before Anaconda. I've used most of the major package management systems over the years (from rpm to deb to slack to arch to source based etc) and the only package management system I can say truelly blows is rpm. Even once they added Yum it still blew. I haven't used pclinuxos which a lot of ppl rave about but I honestly can't bear to let myself down. I
- jvincent08, on 11/25/2008, -0/+1I'm running preview and just tried "yum upgrade" and it said there were no packages marked for update. Did it already upgrade for me while I was away? Hmm....
- StealthTomato, on 11/26/2008, -0/+1I've been happy with debian-based systems, but I'd like to try Fedora again. I just need to make sure that it'll work, mmkay?
Why the bury? - mooninite, on 11/25/2008, -1/+2There's single click upgrade functionality available for upgrading Fedora versions. It's less effort than typing "emerge," which is by-far-and-large the most difficult thing to type on the planet.
- javaroast, on 11/25/2008, -0/+1Interesting, I have a machine that I've yum or preupgraded starting from Fedora 3 now running 9. I've usually had to do some cleanup afterwards, but haven't had any major issues. I would definitely give preupgrade a try if you have a fairly clean system.
- int19h, on 11/27/2008, -0/+1Okay, this comment was a bit unfair. Fedora has a few good things going for it.
- int19h, on 12/12/2008, -0/+1d0nkeym0nkey, I bury you for thinking I'm an idiot just because I had one idiotic comment.
- lynx44, on 11/25/2008, -1/+2That's what I tried last time, it didn't work for me. I'll try again when I feel like I need to update. It was Fedora 7 so I think it was an early build of preupgrade, so maybe that was the problem.
- d0nkeym0nkey, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1You must feel very proud about your comments.
- johnny81, on 02/13/2009, -0/+0wow this is good
http://www.linkbuilderz.com/linkbuilding/ - d0nkeym0nkey, on 12/02/2008, -1/+1Buried for being an idiot.
- ezran, on 11/25/2008, -4/+3I am very happy with 8 and 9, especially with their work with KDE.
Will try 10 in a few hours:
http://www.ezran.org/blog/2008/11/fedora-vs-ubuntu ... - GOVATENT, on 11/25/2008, -5/+4Wow, -4 diggs for coldkill3rs comment and he is just as gay as ever
- Virgule, on 11/25/2008, -5/+4I'll use VirtualBox
- Beautyon, on 11/25/2008, -2/+1You cannot 'insult a distro'. Distros are not religions or...
Oops. - neilsonkm, on 11/26/2008, -2/+0WoW!!! It is so so so coooool - can't wait to start a third party app!! Oh.. wait.... wine.conf... edit.. edit... edit... try.. edit.. edit.. try.. edit. try. edit. try... reboot to Windows....double click.
- ptFoe, on 11/26/2008, -3/+1still fat as your mum
oops I am sorry big boned - Vadi0, on 11/25/2008, -5/+2Um. That's a bunch of nice methods, but I prefer Ubuntu's one-click "Upgrade" button...
- volcompimp, on 11/26/2008, -6/+3RPM needs to just die already.
- cowboy77061, on 11/26/2008, -4/+1***** all yall!!!!!!!!!!
- Carlix, on 11/26/2008, -4/+1Why is everyone getting dugg down?
- int19h, on 11/26/2008, -5/+1Buried for being a redundant distro.
- StealthTomato, on 11/25/2008, -9/+3Hey, does this release have a driver package for nVidia video cards? That's what kept me away from Fedora 9, since I have 7600GS.
That and I heard the package management isn't that great. - dimethroxy, on 11/25/2008, -9/+3Let's hope Fedora update system is better than Ubuntu system...
- lynx44, on 11/25/2008, -9/+2I've never been able to successfully upgrade my Fedora system, I always end up doing a full install. I've decided that if I can't get it to upgrade next time I try, I'm going with Ubuntu. IMO its pretty unacceptable to (pretty much) require a user to reinstall the entire OS every 6 months; yes there are ways to upgrade, but it's far too difficult and even the Fedora team itself says that they recommend a complete reinstall.
- nutmac, on 11/25/2008, -8/+1Upgrading to F9 from F8 through installation DVD was a disaster for me, with many conflicts and system instability. I did the next best thing. I switched over to Ubuntu 8.04 (clean install). 8.10 came out few months later, so I changed "show new distribution releases" setting on Software Sources from "long term support releases only" to "normal releases". Update Manager automatically detected 8.10 updates and my desktop is running a stable 8.10 (much more so than F9 anyway) about two hours later.
As GWB once said, "Fool me once shame on... shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again." - inactive, on 11/25/2008, -8/+1I use my DickInaBox
- Beautyon, on 11/25/2008, -9/+1If you need complicated instructions on how to upgrade, then it is broken.
This is part of the reason I switched over to Ubuntu.
The last time I upgraded Fedora, the forums said that 'upgrading automatically is not recommended'.
Sorry, I have no use for that. Ubuntu trounces Fedora. Period. - latticebug, on 11/25/2008, -10/+2Why bother lock yourself to some release team and do a horrible "system upgrade/reinstall" every 6 months or so by using Fedora/Ubuntu alike?
Switch to archlinux or gentoo! You can upgrade your system whenever you want by simply doing "pacman -Syu" or "emerge -avDuN @world". -
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