Anything for home user and not the technical one??

Parshwa Murdia b330bkn at gmail.com
Fri Jul 23 07:32:14 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Christofer C. Bell
<christofer.c.bell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 2:13 AM, g <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> Christofer C. Bell wrote:
>> <snip>
>>
>>> Regardless, yes, you can go directly from Fedora 11 to Fedora 13 using
>>> preupgrade[1].
>>
>> not exactly true.
>>
>> was there not a post in past week or two where a user tried such and
>> had problems?
>
> I don't know, I didn't see it.  I've done the process (F11 -> F13)
> twice without issue.


Then its really possible.


>> due to problems/bugs being cleared in f13, i would think parshwa would
>> have better results with f11 to f12.

> Could be!  He should do it while Fedora 12 is still supported.


Yes.


>> then when f14 has been out 3 or 4 months and most problems/bugs have
>> been cleared in f13, he can upgrade to f13 then later to f14.

> When Fedora 14 has been out for 3-4 months, Fedora 12 will have been
> past EOL by 2-3 months.  What you recommend is.. not recommended.  He
> should be moving to Fedora 13 *now*.


Correct is Christopher.


>> i base this on consideration that parshwa is speaking for his family using,
>> not just himself. wives and children can be a detriment to using fedora.

> How are wives and children an obstacle to Fedora use?


Some people have that experience, and so on the basis of that
experience they had, they tell, and I guess it could be a reason why
'g' said.


Regards,
Parshwa Murdia


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