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I still am running FC2 on my DAW. I have upgraded my main office

computer nearly every other fedora release (I figure that the even

releases will be better, much like the Star Trek movies) and I haven't

had much breakage (i.e. by using the upgrade option in the fedora

CD-roms). I use Planet CCRMA for my DAW and find that everything (on

FC2) is running perfectly, so I don't see any real reason to want to

break...I mean upgrade the OS. Once I build out a 64-bit machine I will

install the latest and greatest...
Incidentally, I just installed FC6 on another (non-music) machine and

was happy to see that they are no longer using uptodate. They are using

pup I believe, which can be set to use other yum repos. And, the

distro's fedora extras included Jack, Rosegarden and other music apps.
-Joe
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 19:17 -0800, Brad Fuller wrote:

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> Forest Bond wrote:

> > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:30:11PM -0800, Brad Fuller wrote:

> >

> >> every time there is a new Fedora Core, I usually get around to moving to

> >> the next version. However, for me, it's a bit of a pain to do because

> >> you really have to wipe the disc and start all over.. ."upgrading"

> >> Fedora doesn't really work well. At least for me it doesn't.

> >>

> >> Don't you find this a bit irritating? I do. It's not hard, it just seems

> >> unnecessary.

> >>

> >

> > I don't know why people tolerate this sort of thing.  Debian and Ubuntu have

> > _always_ upgraded well for me.  These are projects that recognize that one of

> > the most important (if not _the_ most important) responsibilty of a distribution

> > is dependency management, including versioned dependencies through upgrades.

> >

> > I recently started maintaining a RHEL server at work, and up2date is one of the

> > crudest tools I've ever seen.  It just barely does anything right at all.

> >

> > I guess I've just been spoiled by apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, update-manager,

> > et. al... (And the package maintainers for the above-mentioned projects --

> > package managers need good data to do their jobs well).

> >

> Upgrading applications is easy as pie on Fedora, as long as you get the

> right repos. I use Smart Manager and it's very nice, once you get it setup.

>

> My concern is not applications, but the distro itself. If there was a

> way to upgrade from FC5 to FC6 using Smart Manager, I'd try it. But, I

> didn't know there was a way. I've always had to wipe the disc clean and

> start over. I tried upgrading from FC3->FC4 using the CDROMs, but it

> never worked quite right. I actually tried a few times. I even tried

> FC4->FC5 from the CDROMs. But, always had to start from scratch.

>

> brad