F16 changes

[Michael Hennebry]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Mark LaPierre wrote:

> On 01/10/2012 09:32 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> As my current installation is EOL,
>> there are things I would like to know before trying to install F16.
>> For me, installation has always been a struggle.

> Fedora is the upstream development environment for Red Hat Enterprise 
> Linux (RHEL).  If you have issues with upgrades you might consider 
> installing CentOS 6.2 which is built from the RHEL source files.  CentOS 
> 6.2 has an EOL in 2017 so you would be set for at least five years if 
> you decide to go with that.  Fedora has a new release every six months 
> and reaches EOL within two years.

That is an idea that I have been toying with.
If I do it, I'll probably start with a triple boot:
F-EOL, F16, CentOS 6.2.

> All the issues you mention with disk partitions, and user/group IDs, and 
> the new and "improved" Gnome 3 that you didn't mention are not an issue 
> with CentOS 6.2.  CentOS is from the same family of Linux "flavors" as 
> Fedora so you should feel very familiar with the environment.

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