Case for an occasional system refresh or clean install

[Roberto Ragusa]

On 06/18/2014 02:56 PM, Temlakos wrote:
> Everyone:
> 
> No complaints here. Just some insights from some recent experiences.
> 
> Bottom line: everyone who administers a Fedora system, should do a "clean install" or an effective system refresh (reinstalling the OS and all apps on a system having a separate /home partition) at least, I would say, once for every three new versions of Fedora. The "fedup" app lets too many minor faults accumulate in a system over time. Result: you are cheating yourself and your users of a good user experience.

Why do you say this?
You can, alternatively, just be diligent, handle .rpmorig and .rpmsave correctly, and generally
know what you are doing.

My main installation was installed on Fedora 3, and then it was upgraded
to 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
It jumped on three different machines.
It was born i386 and it is now x86_64.
It moved from HDD to SSD.
It moved from unencrypted storage to encrypted storage.

In many cases I've done what it is labeled as "you should not do this".
Transformation of a i686 to x86_64 is considered impossible, for example.
I never deleted my home directory (but the transition from KDE 3.5 to KDE 4.4 was hard indeed).

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   Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it