[GTALUG] Experience Upgrading From Fedora 24 to Fedora 25

[David Collier-Brown]

Fedora is good for a developer, redhat as a production target. I like to 
run a copy of my production system on a VM (actually on more then one) 
so I don't break dev or pollute prod.

--dave


On 06/12/16 10:19 PM, Marc Lijour via talk wrote:
>
> Is it better to have RHEL instead of Fedora as a regular desktop if 
> you're a dev?
> Red Hat is giving out free (as in beer) versions for devs: 
> https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/03/31/no-cost-rhel-developer-subscription-now-available/
>
>
> On 2016-12-06 04:55 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote:
>> Odd follow up to this.
>>
>> While doing that T-420, I also performed the upgrade on my daily 
>> laptop. Although what I failed to notice was that I jumped directly 
>> from 23 => 25, skipping 24. D'oh!
>>
>> Thankfully, the transition went very well from my perspective. Been 
>> running the last whole week without issues. This is with third-party 
>> repos like RPM Fusion, Dropbox, Chrome, Adobe, and some Fedora COPR 
>> repos as well.
>>
>> Your millage may very, but it interesting to see the result in my case.
>>
>>
>> On 27/11/16 03:12 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote:
>>> On 24/11/16 07:12 PM, CLIFFORD ILKAY via talk wrote:
>>>> I just followed the directions here
>>>> <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade> to upgrade from 24
>>>> to 25. Within 20 minutes, I had a flawlessly working system. I'm very
>>>> impressed.
>>>
>>> I have a little do nothing arm system stashed away that I only interact
>>> with remotely.
>>>
>>> https://linux-sunxi.org/Mele_A1000
>>> Allwinner A10 single core with 512MB of RAM.
>>>
>>> I did the initial install on Fedora 23, previously upgraded this way to
>>> 24, and just yesterday to 25. All remotely, rebooting without hiccup.
>>>
>>> I've also done the 23 => 24 Jump on a T-420 thinkpad I own. And will
>>> likely do the 24 => 25 jump after posting this.
>>>
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