Fedora 8

[Adam Hawes]

On 10/12/2007, at 10:30 PM, Daryl Tester wrote:

> Piers Rowan wrote:
>
>> Fedora has hit release 8 but is there any real motivation to  
>> 'upgrade'
>> from 7?
>
> I don't know about upgrade, but I had a recent Intel motherboard where
> certain peripherals were better catered for by the more recent kernel.

Too true - the new kernels are really keeping up pretty well with new  
hardware.  I remember a time a few years ago when you were S.O.L if  
you had some of the latest stuff.  Now it all just kind of works.

As for upgrading from 7 to 8.  See below...

>
>> Or other RPM users going the CentOS track for their desktop?
>
> Ah, desktop.  I primarily use Fedora for servers.  I dunno about Linux
> distributions on desktops as they all seem to be Windows wannabes.
>

Ahh the servers.  I tried fedora but their constant dropping support  
for FCx when FC(x+2) comes out means that you're forever running  
their fragile distribution upgrader.   I could say something about  
crazy and insane but if it's working for you best of luck that it  
keeps working.

We have a FC6 box here hosting some internal services  (bug tracker  
and version control mostly) and it's not supported anymore.  The box  
is too mission critical now (it never was when it started out but how  
things change) to risk taking it offline to install FC7 or 8 on it.

If you like Fedora why not try something like RedHat or Centos - they  
have longer term support so long as you don't need the latest and  
greatest everywhere.

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