Re: Upgrading 7.1

[kaktus2 <kaktus2 wanadoo fr>]

I do not realy agree with you Joshua. But I think that it's a question 
of experiences.
It's been 1 year and a half I've started with Linux. I tried a few 
distros (Suze, Mandrake) and came to 7.1. I've learnt on it and it's my 
favourite. Then I've tried 7.2beta, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0 but always returned to 
7.1.
That makes me say that I would upgrade my main system only if I could 
reproduce the services the same way, or easier than now.
Linux is not like M$, and doesn't need to be upgraded to latest release 
to try to correct some major malfunction. Bugs are corrected through new 
applications releases, that perfectly fit to you actual system. If you 
want a newer version of an application than the one in the latest rpm 
update, do it by building it.
I'm fed up with re-installing my system again and again. (like with M$), 
I only do it if I got a major crash (happens sometimes) Automatisation 
(up2date) is a good thing, especialy if you don't know how to do to 
upgrade, but I prefer manual updates, and automatized system restores.
The next time I will upgrade my 7.1 will be for:
   - exotic hardware support
   - the hope soon coming 2.6 kernel
   - another system architecture
   - ...

Marc, my advice would be you should upgrade to newer/latest release only 
if you think it's worth doing all that job, or if you want to learn 
about another release. You must know that different releases do not 
function the same way, not only because of latest binaries, but also 
because of "shipped scripts". With other releases, I could not always 
reproduce what I was doing with 7.1. But I've not tried 9 now... (maybe 
it's the "chosen one")...

All depends on what you wanna do with your machine...

Joshua Andrews wrote:

> Mark Cooper wrote:
>
> > Can anyone tell me the best/correct way to upgrade a Redhat 7.1 system?
> >
> > First off, the system uses up2date so has all the latest ( 7.1 ) 
> > updates.
> > Which version should it be upgraded to 7.3, 8.0, or 9.0?
> > Should it be incrementally upgraded? For example 7.1->7.2->7.3 ?
> >
> > I realise I could boot from one of the newer distrib's and go through 
> > the upgrade rather than fresh install routine, but I'll then need to 
> > go through the whole up2date routine again, is this correct?
> Since Red Hat has shortened the support life of its releases you are 
> best to go with the newest release which is 9. Also 9 is, in my 
> opinion, the best standard release so far and being newer 9 has much 
> less to update.
>
> Update directly to 9, incrementing would do nothing.
>
> -Joshua
>
>
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