On 04/01/2013 10:51 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
There are reasons for running old versions, but but only a few of us have a good one. I stopped caring after not getting a response, and follow this thread now for amusement, watching sensible people not only beat a dead horse, but drag the carcass through the streets.
Absolutely. Yesterday's updates (I presume) somehow b0rk my desktop, running F 17; even rebooting into an older kernel didn't get things back. (No, this isn't an attempt to hijack the thread; it's just background for what follows.) The boot process never completes, but when disk activity stops, I can get to an alternate TTY and log in; sometimes, but not always, the network's up. (I'm a tad suspicious of my NIC, but again, that's a side issue.)
I've decided that the best thing to do is to reinstall Fedora, without reformatting /home to get a fresh start. Right now I'm downloading the F 17 .iso onto my laptop and will burn a DVD. Why 17? Well, I've been reading all too many threads on fedoraforum about people having endless problems with the new anaconda's partitioning software, especially when it comes to reusing old partitions and I'm not willing to take any chances with it. Being one version behind isn't really that bad, as it's still supported, but I wanted to toss it out as a reason not to go with The Latest And Greatest.
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