Fedora 4 upgrade

[Aivar Kant]

hello everyone!
I just joined the group and am a bit new to Linux enviroment and stuff. I 
have installed a Fedora 3 on my PC but since there is a newer version out 
there I was wondering if it is worth the trouble. Also if you have 
recommendations for places to download it from.

Thanks,
[e-mail]

[Josh Coffman]

--- Aivar Kant  wrote:
> hello everyone!
> I just joined the group and am a bit new to Linux
> enviroment and stuff. I 
> have installed a Fedora 3 on my PC but since there
> is a newer version out 
> there I was wondering if it is worth the trouble.
> Also if you have 
> recommendations for places to download it from.
>
> Thanks,
> [e-mail]

I've never used FC3, only FC4. And I am still new to
linux; FC4 being the one I choose after trying a lot
of different flavors.

Some may say stick with FC3; I am happy on FC4. Your
experience will vary based on your hardware. I haven't
had 1/10 the problems of some others here. Most of the
problems I do have is simply to do inexperience.

If you think you might want to try FC4 and only just
recently installed FC3, then try it now before you
have too much time invested in either.

get it here:
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/#download
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html

And I don't recomend the DVD version. Myself and
others have had problems getting it to work.

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[Oldman]

Aivar Kant wrote:
> hello everyone!
> I just joined the group and am a bit new to Linux enviroment and 
> stuff. I have installed a Fedora 3 on my PC but since there is a newer 
> version out there I was wondering if it is worth the trouble. Also if 
> you have recommendations for places to download it from.
>
> Thanks,
> [e-mail]

I have been very happy with FC4 and look forward to FC5 in 
February.  No matter which way you go you will need to be prepared to 
download hundreds (thousands?) of files to get to the current release of 
all packages.  The latest FC4 can be gotten at:

http://fedora.isphuset.no

assuming you have access to BitTorrent.  If not you'll have to get the 
original fedora packages, you can take your pick of mirrors or use the 
fedora site at:

http://fedora.redhat.com/download/

HTH

Scott

[Robin Laing]

Aivar Kant wrote:
> hello everyone!
> I just joined the group and am a bit new to Linux enviroment and stuff. 
> I have installed a Fedora 3 on my PC but since there is a newer version 
> out there I was wondering if it is worth the trouble. Also if you have 
> recommendations for places to download it from.
>
> Thanks,
> [e-mail]

FWIW, I used FC1 until September at home and July at work.  I then 
moved to FC4.  We have people at work using FC3 and 4.

I would wait until FC5 at this point in time.  It is expected in 
February at this point.

http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/

Take the time to get familiar and enjoy.

[Samuel Yin]

If you just installed FC3, why not wait for FC5 early next year instead 
of FC4. Since you are new to Linux/FC, I don't think there are two much 
important differences between FC4 and FC3 to you.

Thanks and Regards

Samuel Yin

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:35:56AM +0800, Samuel Yin wrote:
> If you just installed FC3, why not wait for FC5 early next year instead 
> of FC4. Since you are new to Linux/FC, I don't think there are two much 
> important differences between FC4 and FC3 to you.

The most important difference between FC3 and FC4 is that FC3
doesn't have too much time left before it reaches the end of its lifecycle
and gets transitioned to the fedora legacy folks.

Given the limited time remaining for FC3, I've held off on rebasing the
FC3 kernel to a newer upstream, which is why it's sticking at 2.6.12.
Unfortunate, because a lot of bugs in bugzilla are definitly fixed
in 2.6.13/14.

I toyed with the idea of doing one more FC3 kernel before it reaches
EOL, but modulo security bugs, that probably isn't going to happen now.
The effort required to identify the correct subset of patches that
got merged upstream, resolve their dependancies, and bend them to
fit the older kernel tree, getting them tested, and fixing up any
regressions (kernel updates always seem to go through 1-2 iterations
in updates-testing before going live) just isn't worth it.

So if you've some long-lingering FC3 kernel bug, your best hope
right now is to move to FC4, because chances are, it's not going
to get fixed.

(For info: At FC3 EOL, all still-open kernel bugzillas will get
 migrated to FC4, and put into NEEDINFO along with a
 "Please upgrade, and re-test" comment).

Dave

[El Gato Feo]

I too am new to Linux and have chosen FC4. I had an easy install and am very
pleased with this distro.

I hope you have a good experience with it as well.

Dave

Subject: Fedora 4 upgrade

hello everyone!
I just joined the group and am a bit new to Linux enviroment and stuff. I 
have installed a Fedora 3 on my PC but since there is a newer version out 
there I was wondering if it is worth the trouble. Also if you have 
recommendations for places to download it from.

Thanks,
[e-mail]