I thought I would start a new more generic thread.In the current landscape, both Fedora and OpenSuSE are "cutting edge" releases as well as testing for the respective enterprise editions. This is, IMHO, a good thing as many users prefer to get some of the latest bells and whistles as well as some stuff that does not go into the enterprise builds. This is one reason why I just replaced by CentOS desktop system with Fedora 9. Different markets, different expectations. Ubuntu has a different philosophy. I don't have any experience upgrading Fedora, but I do with SuSE, RHEL, Ubuntu, Tru64 Unix, Ultrix.
My experiences with RHEL (on IA64) were disastrous although in both cases experienced system admin people were involved. On my laptop, I've upgraded each o the past 3 or 4 releases of Ubuntu with no problems, and on my home computer some of my upgrades were upgrade installs of various releases of SuSE. I personally prefer and recommend clean installs of an OS whether your OS is a Redmond product, Linux, BSD Unix, or Solaris. The main issue with clean installs is to make sure your home directories are backed up and/or maintained as a separate file system, and that you can rebuild the configuration files. But in recent years, system configuration on Linux has become easier.
One "distro" whose approach I like is Gentoo because it is essentially a continuous upgrade. I initially installed it on my laptop, but my office wanted me to use Ubuntu. Quite a while ago I switched rom Debian to SuSE because the release cycles were too slow.
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