Moving from Centos to Fedora 9

[Jerry Feldman]

I've used many distros from Ygdrasil to Debian to SuSe to RHEL to=20
Fdedora. Lately I've found that I've become used to Gnome and Red Hat=20
because that is what I use at work,

On 09/14/2008 08:54 PM, markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org wrote:
> I've stuck with [K]ubuntu probably more than any previous distro. I've
> used historical RedHat, mandrake, S.u.S.E. slackware, CentOS, REHE3/4/5=

> and a few others I forget.
>
> (You probably know the following, but for the benefit of the casual rea=
der
> looking for advice.)
>
> I strongly suggest creating a separate home partition (if on another
> drive, all the better.) That way changing distros is merely installing =
the
> base system on a partition, and mounting your home.
>
> IMHO, it is more of a hassle to switch desktops than it is to switch
> distros. In my experience, KDE settings and customizations more general=
ly
> migrate from distro to distro and upgrade better. below that, the core
> distro generally do what it is supposed to. I spend more type customizi=
ng
> my environment than I do configuring the OS.
>
> If you want a recommendation on a distro, I've had the best user
> experience thus far in my Linux journey with Kubuntu. We've come a long=

> way since 1995.
>
>
>  =20
>> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:41:25 -0400
>> From: Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
>> Subject: Moving from Centos to Fedora 9
>> To: discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org
>> Message-ID: <48CC0955.9070503-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
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>> I've decided that I want a more cutting edge distro. While I run RHEL =
at
>> work and Centos 5.2 at home, there are some features in Fedora 9 (as
>> well as SuSE 11 andUbuntu 8.04 that are not available in Centos throug=
h
>> the standard repositories (although I can grab them directly).
>>
>> While I will probably do a clean install, is it possible to do an
>> upgrade install.
>>
>> --
>> Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
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Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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