[linux-audio-user] FC2->Fc3->Fc4->Fc5->FC6->FC*: it's crazy!

[Mark Knecht]

On 11/14/06, Brad Fuller <brad at sonaural.com> wrote:
> every time there is a new Fedora Core, I usually get around to moving to
> the next version. However, for me, it's a bit of a pain to do because
> you really have to wipe the disc and start all over.. ."upgrading"
> Fedora doesn't really work well. At least for me it doesn't.
>
> Don't you find this a bit irritating? I do. It's not hard, it just seems
> unnecessary.
>
>  Are other distros better at upgrading but also provide all of the nice
> features that Fedora does? (there are a lot of audio apps available in
> rpm for Fedora. I just can't spend my time compiling each and every one
> when updates come along.)
>
> What do others do?
>

Gentoo. My longest running machine is 4 years this Thanksgiving. I
just run emerge -pvDuN once or twice a year and it goes on chugging
along. My 78 year old dad doesn't even know an upgrade has happened
unless Evolution or Firefox change the way they look.

Cheers,
Mark