Sam Barnett-Cormack said:
Given the track record with redhat of how often upgrades go wrong,
The upgrade on my laptop from RHL9 to FC1 went completely without problems.
and the fact that such an upgrade requires more downtime, I think a lot of people will worry about that.
I would prefer more planned downtime than the downtime that comes from breaking something. All upgrades will require downtime, some more than others. As I said in a previous post, trying to get a distro to upgrade through yum, etc. isn't a bad thing, just as long as people understand that it may not be possible in some cases (like FC1 -> FC2 IMHO). APIs, config files, library versions change, and trying to change these while you are using them can cause Bad Things (tm).
Is fedora there to provide a good distro to users, or to exploit users to redhat's commercial benefit?
You'll have to pardon me for not looking over my shoulder for the black heliocopters...
Fedora IS the community. So the community is there to provide a good distro to the community. You would probably do well to get over the "I'm a user, Fedora owes me..." mentality.
-- William Hooper