[Leaplist] Fedora 11

[Craig "Fuzzy" Conner]

Regarding upgrading Fedora via yum, I've done it several times.  Only
once or twice I've had minor issues to fix, but nothing that couldn't
be fixed by using a live CD of the desired version as a rescue/repair
disk.


Step 1:  Read http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum
Step 2:  Read it again.  Yes, really.

Again, rarely has a live upgrade via yum upgrade given me problems.
Still, as that page says, "The recommended installation method is with
a boot media..." and "...live upgrades are not recommended by the
Fedora Project. If you are not prepared to resolve issues on your own
if things break, you should probably use the recommend installation
methods instead."

That being said, I will do a live upgrade to a few systems here at the
house in a couple of weeks.


Also interesting reading is the Fedora 11 release notes
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/en-US/

Friday I did a clean install from the KDE-Live CD to a laptop.  So far
everything works perfectly including WiFi, EVDO (3G), and
dual-booting.


Other things:
There are already newer-than-the-CD packages in the repositories or
lots of KDE parts and other packages too--after a install-from-media
you'll probably want to do a "yum update" already.

Fedora's goal of faster boot times is no joke.  That laptop start up
is much faster.

KDE4.* continues to improve.  If you stopped loving KDE when 4.0
arrived, you might want to give it another try now.

Apparently there isn't a K3B for KDE4 yet.  Probably this is a good
thing for the K3B team:  Amarok for KDE4 released early, it's still
missing features it used to have in its versions for KDE 3.5.*, and
the Amarok developers have been assaulted with users' temper tantrums
ever since.  If the K3B team releases a bit later but with more
features people have come to expect, they'll be spared a lot of grief.

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