[NTLUG:Discuss] Fedora Core 5

[Mark Hanna]

Normally, I like staying very current with the FC releases, but that is
because I use Red Hat/Fedora for both professionally for work and for
home/hobby fun.  

Coming from FC3 to FC5, you will see the various version jumps (based on
initial version loaded for each FC version with no regular yum updates)
Kernel version jumps from 2.6.9 to 2.6.15
GCC jumps from 3.4.2 to version 4.1
Firefox goes from 0.10.1 to 1.5
Apache goes from 2.0.52 to 2.2.0

FC5 also now includes support for Xen and Eclipse.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=fedora provides a nice
table layout for the other changes between all the various Fedora
versions.

I list these version jumps since you may be breaking some of your
existing software running these much newer versions.

Since FC5 was released only last week though, so my general
recommendation to most users would be to hold off for at least a couple
of weeks for "everyone else" discovers any major problems like the ones
that were found with FC2 initially.

For both the casual and professional Fedora user, I also recommend
subscribing to the fedora-announce-list at redhat.com mailing list.  It
will keep you current on any packages updates.  There were already 5
just from this last weekend.

Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: Discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:Discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On
Behalf Of Chris Cox
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 12:24 PM
To: NTLUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Fedora Core 5

John K. Taber wrote:
> I have FC3 installed and working fine as a lone user. Any advantage to
> going to the latest, FC5?
> 
> John K. Taber
> 

Newer.  Eventually, holding on to FC3 will become harder and harder
to do.  BUT, with that said, I've certainly pushed off upgrades
of SUSE in the past... even waiting for them to drop totally
off of support before upgrading.   It's nice to have a choice.
But it is truly is a decision that you get to make and
everyone's needs are different.


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