fc7 test4 to F7 General Availability.

[Kam Leo]

On 5/9/07, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/9/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > gary artim wrote:
> >
> > > does this mean I could use the fc7-ga dvd to upgrade. sounds like
> > > you are talking about changing the yum repo's to allow for the update,
> > > am I correct?
> > >
> >
> > Yes. That's correct.
> >
> > > will report any issues!
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Rahul
>
> I don't want to put cold water on Rahul's recommendation; however, you
> should reconsider going this route. Although both are rpm based
> distributions there a few differences between SuSE/openSUSE and Fedora
> which cause headaches in the upgrade process.
>
> You will have to manually remove the SUSE configuration tools (YAST,
> SAX, etc.) and any other SUSE specific applications/utilities that are
> no longer useful or applicable. Those may not be a major problem.
> Package selection and implementation differences may. For example:
> SUSE uses Sun's java. Fedora uses JPackage.org's. SUSE does not use
> SELinux. Fedora does. Etc. Etc.

One big factor that I forgot to mention: File system.

SUSE's default is reiser.  I don't know how FC7 treats that file system.

> I highly recommend that you backup any user files that you want to
> save and perform a fresh installation. It will save you time and
> effort.
>