Plea for upgrade capability

[Mike McCarty]

don vogt wrote:
> Background:
>  I started with Linux with slackware downloaded on 14
> (?) floppy disks by ftp from MIT. I changed to Redhat
> and then dropped off Linux to do genealogy for a
> couple of years. (now we have GRAMPS and maybe I
> wouldn't leave Linux today) When I came back, I
> started again with Core 4. I was quite happy with that
> until Legacy went belly up. All I really wanted for
> updates was security updates. I am just a desktop user
> so my needs should be relatively small. I did a yum
> upgrade to core5 with few problems, apparently caused
> by mismatches in repos for xine.

It sounds to me like FC may not be the best distro for
you. FC has lots of "thrash". If all you want is for
it to "just work", then perhaps CentOS or Debian or
perhaps Ubuntu would be better.

Mike
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