Upgrade from 8 to 9: Yes or no ?

Kevin Martin kevintm at ameritech.net
Wed Jun 18 14:23:27 UTC 2008


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> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Martin Schoch <mschoch at gmail.com 
> <mailto:mschoch at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello ,
>
>     silly - I know ;-) I have a Fedora 8 installation which runs perfectly
>     - with webserver as Intranet with many modules -- runs without any
>     problems.
>
>     But Fedora 9 is out - should I make the upgrade or should I follow
>     "Never change a running system"?
>
>     As I understood many postings, an upgrade would be a very good idea -
>     much better and more stable would be a very fresh Installation. Only
>     then I would have to re-compile all my additional modules - I really
>     do not know whether the effort worthwhile ...
>
>     Someone made similar considerations and then did the upgrade then?
>
>     --
>     Best regards,
>      Martin                          mailto:mschoch at gmail.com
>     <mailto:mschoch at gmail.com>
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FWIW, F8 is getting to be almost as unstable as F9 with the recent 
kernel updates to try to stay in lockstep with F9.  I recently updated 
my kernel to the 2.6.25-4.10 version and I've had the system lockup ever 
since.  At first I thought it was gnome updates that was causing it so I 
moved over to using xdm and fluxbox, but that hasn't fixed the lockups.  
It's at the point where I need to power off the box with the power 
button and then restart it to get the laptop back up.  So beware kernel 
updates whether it's F8 or F9 at this time would be my advice and don't 
go to F9 until they get things straightened out.  Too bad...I advocate 
the use of Linux over Windows to everybody I talk to, show them my 
laptop running Linux with my apps running, and always tell them how 
stable it is.  I'll have to be careful with that now as it's not nearly 
as stable as it has been in the past.

Kevin
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