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Fedora Linux Might Drop Incremental Upgrades (happyassassin.net)

Posted by Soulskill on from the how-to-save-an-hour-a-year dept.

prisoninmate writes: As you might know, Fedora and many other GNU/Linux distributions require users to do an incremental upgrade when attempting to move from an older version of the operating system to the most recent one. For example, if you want to upgrade from Fedora 21 to Fedora 23, you will have first to upgrade to Fedora 22. Lately, Fedora upgrades have become more stable and reliable, mostly because of some brand-new technologies, such as the DNF package manger. Fedora's Adam Williamson theorizes about an innovative method that might support official upgrade of the Fedora Linux operating system across two releases in the future.

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  1. 20 to 23 by rfengr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have gone from 20 to 23 via upgrades with no issues. The fedora team does a pretty good job with the instructions and methods. Now if they would only get rid of the stinking graphical boot and the "quiet" mode. What do people fear kernel messages at boot?

  2. Re:I never upgrade Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Yeah, I do exactly the same thing. I figured out a long time ago to keep (any) OS seperate from data.
    I've ran into too many goofy issues with "upgrading". I'm also very careful about update as I had those
    break everything as well.

    And don't get me going about the "new" installer... What a PiA! And listen, if you're going to give me the
    ability to encrypt things, WTF can't you encrypt /boot? Why do I have to do it by hand! It's a F&#$*%@
    installer; it should _know_ how to do things!~

    Lazy kids - get a job!

    I guess dnf works, but all of my scripts are setup using YUM.

    CAP === 'Poacher'