> On 31 Jul 2022, at 02:35, Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On Sat, 2022-07-30 at 20:01 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: >> My approach would be to start from scratch on a new disk (or at least >> a new partition) and install anything needed to get the same >> configuration working. > > Likewise. I gave up upgrading long ago, it's one of those "in theory" > things that often doesn't go according to plan. Long term installs > over the top often end up with conflicts, and a mess of increasing > things collecting over time.
My experience with upgrade is tha it works very well. All the issues I have seen I would also have seen on a new install. I use fedora server and fedora KDE on 6 machines ranging from Server to laptop to desktop and some vm. > >> Although why anyone would want to use fedora for a long term server >> is a separate question :-). (CentOS or Ubuntu LTS comes to mind). Even rhel 9 seems old to me. At work we are going to rhel 8 and that is ancient to me. Barry > > I'd agree with that too, though it seems CentOS is moving themselves > out of that position. CentOS 7 lasts 'til mid-2024, CentOS 8 lasts > until the end of 2022, there won't be a CentOS9. > > CentOS Stream is > becoming a RHEL preview, somewhere between RHEL and Fedora. I can't > find the quote now (it was on their own website), but they were > recommending people don't use it as a long-term server solution. > > Constantly planning for needing to upgrade your mail server, and when, > for example, is not my idea of fun. More so for complicated databases. > > -- > > uname -rsvp > Linux 3.10.0-1160.71.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 28 15:37:28 UTC 2022 x86_64 > > Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. > I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
