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

Alma J Wetzker almaw
Fri Nov 19 12:46:51 PST 2004


Net Llama! wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:28:49 -0500, David Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> 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?
>>>
>>
>>Of course not, they just have a product to sell and sell again.
> 
> 
> Fedora is free.  And can be upgraded with yum.
> 

I think I am missing something, are you saying that FC1 can be upgraded to FC3 
through just yum?  I really don't know and haven't tried anything with a RH 
product since 7.1 or earlier.  They never worked right for me.


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