Curious About Updating.....

[Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I]

Thanks "Ben"! In all actuality this laptop was given to me by someone 
who thought it was junk!...and when they gave it to me it WAS. There was 
food in every crack & crevice, the thing wouldn't power on, the screen 
was marred, smudged, and it rattled when you shook it. It was a labor of 
love for me and now that it's all polished up and working fine, I just 
want to keep it in a state of functionality. Which would mean I'd need 
the latest updates for things like sound/graphics/video/webcam stuff, 
not to mention the latest versions of LibreOffice, FireFox, Thunderbird 
etc. I guess I'll just bite the bullet and do a clean install, my only 
worry is: this version of Fedora I'm using is actually one called 
"Fusion" linux, and it came with all sorts of "goodies" and extras that 
a "standard" install didn't...I'm hoping that everything that came with 
THIS version might be available for #17?....here's to hoping! And thanks 
again for the help!!


EGO II



On 06/20/2012 01:13 AM, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote:
> To Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I:
>
> I'm having far fewer problems with F17 than I had with F15. I've done 
> a fresh install, of which I am a great fan in general anyway. I tinker 
> quite a lot with my machine, but am not very skilled, so I am sure I 
> f**k up quite a few things in every version. When I do a clean install 
> all that s**t is gone. :)
> I don't know about your laptop; I don't have one like that. :) I do 
> know that many people have problems with fresh installs once a new 
> version comes out - the same is gonna happen with F18. I used to wait 
> about a month before upgrading (with a fresh DVD install). The 
> drawback of this is that the first yum update takes forever; the 
> advantage is that most of the initial bugs and problems have been 
> found and fixed.
> Here's the consideration you need to make, and you will be able to 
> reach your own conclusion:
> Fedora 15 is no longer supported; and no longer updated (I assume 
> Fedora sticks with it's N+2 expiration date). If everything runs fine 
> on your machine, there's no real reason to upgrade; it will continue 
> to run fine. There are people who still happily run Win2000, and I've 
> even seen a Win98 machine recently. As long as it keeps doing what you 
> want it to do, why change? However, development does go on, and imho 
> the user experience of F17 is once again better, smoother, easier, 
> than of F16 - and 15. What do you want from your machine? Something 
> that does what it's always done? Or something that looks a tad better, 
> works a tad smoother, can do a tad more... To upgrade or not to 
> upgrade, that's your question.
>