I have FC1 is there any reason to upgrade to FC3 please convince me

Net Llama! netllama
Fri Nov 19 11:35:10 PST 2004


On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, David Bandel wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 22:07:17 +1100, James McDonald
> <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> > OK yall.
> >
> > I am at FC1 and I've faithfully upgraded to the latest and greatest at
> > each release I'm getting to the stage where re-installing is a marathon
> > excercise in reapplying all the tweaks I spent months putting onto my box.
> >
> > So would going to FC3 give me anything better as far as ease of use?
>
> Ahh.  The joys of using Debian (or Gentoo for that matter).  No
> reinstalls just to upgrade.  Can't these dopes (at SuSE, Mandrake, RH,
> etc.) figure out how to upgrade a system without forcing you to trash
> it and start over?

Sure, on Fedora its called yum.

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