Archive for April 7th, 2008

Fedora upgrade

Posted in Fedora on April 7th, 2008 by Johan Huysmans – 2 Comments

Fedora 9 will be released this month, this means that Fedora 7 will be end-of-live within 2 months (1 month after the release of Fedora 9 to be exact).

As one of my desktops was still running Fedora 7 it was time to upgrade to the current stable Fedora, Fedora 8.

On the Fedora wiki you can find a list of instructions to upgrade your machine using yum. It will list the general actions but also the execptions for each upgrade.
You can find these instructions here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq

The upgrade went very smooth, but isn’t recommended for non-technical users as it all happens on the command line.
For those non-technical users a graphical user interface which guides you through the complete process would be very handy (Ubuntu has it already, don’t know if it is available in Fedora 8/9).
I prefer the upgrade with yum as I want to know what my machine is doing.