Lamar Owen wrote:
On Friday, January 21, 2011 11:01:01 am Les Mikesell wrote:
The first few RHEL releases sort of looked like the same pattern where there would be 2 fedora versions replacing the X.0, X.1 RH's with the 3rd in the set being RHEL, but it didn't stay that way very long and quickly got to the point where is wasn't worth even testing on fedora because things would just be completely different in the next release and there was no effort to maintain hardware compatibility or user data across the upgrades - or sometimes even for minor updates.
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I have also seen CentOS (and by extension the upstream) kernels break things, reorder ethernet ports, etc.
Haven't seen the kernel break things, with the exception of *sigh* NVidia drivers.... I've also seen it reorder ethernet ports, but finally found the simple solution (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx, and add the HWADDR)
And before someone else points it out, I know RH8 and RH9 didn't use the .0 minor number (perhaps to avoid the buggy connotation) but they were really more fedora-like and broke more things than users had come to expect in the the RH tradition.
Technically this isn't true. I'm looking at my shelf of boxed sets, and the first one without a .0 was 7. I don't still have my box for RH8, but I do actually have a machine running with RH8....
Lazy! If I fired up my currently-not-running firewall/router at home, it's got RH9. <snip>
In contrast, I returned to Fedora at F11, and haven't had major issues with moving from 11 to 12 to 13 to 14. In fact, the 13 to 14 experience was rather smooth, particularly for bleeding edge.
But that's what Fedora is; bleeding edge, and if that's what you need, that's what you need.
Lessee, FC10->FC13, screw with /boot, finally get it, and X DOES NOT WORK, then I got it working, but gnome is completely broken, and you can't log in, then find that gnome is hostile to window manager switching, and I had to remove all of gnome to get KDE to run (and not have gnome try to run), then for weeks, I had random panics....
Your mileage (and breakage) may vary.
It did, indeed.
mark "that was FC14 that broke X yesterday"