Some people think I’m strange for running Fedora as my primary operating system at home, but I’ve always liked it. The stuff I need to be stable is always rock-solid, and if there is a new feature in a program I use, I’ll get it a year before it goes into Ubuntu or RHEL. Poking, prodding, and breaking stuff occasionally is half the fun.
BUT in my history using Red Hat Linux 6 through all the Fedoras, I have never had upgrade problems like I had going to Fedora 13.
- The DVD media wouldn’t boot. Something to do with my motherboard I think. Same media and DVD-drive work fine if plug it in via a SATA-to-USB adapter cable.
- Upgrading existing installation did not work. The installer didn’t see my Fedora 12 installation and wanted to re-partition my drive.
- When I installed Fedora 13 on a blank HDD, I had problems using the NVIDIA driver. I’m sure Nouveau is coming along leaps and bounds, but until it can beat the NVIDIA proprietary drivers, I don’t want it. Probably could have fixed this, but I gave up.
- I re-imaged back to Fedora 12, then tried using “preupgrade”. It downloaded 1.5 Gigabytes of data then failed to work. Told me it couldn’t find my /root.
- I finally resorted to the non-recommended option – upgrade via “yum”. This worked pretty well. I had a few small issues (all my USB devices worked in Virtualbox except my printer) but nothing more than the usual upgrade quirks. I am typing this on a working Fedora 13.
I guess it could have been worse, I could have installed Windows 7 😉
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