On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 at 10:14, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 03:53:49PM +0100, Dave Pawson wrote: > > Not all that bothered about being 'up to the minute', and after > > 20+ Fedora installs it does get to be a drag... > > You should be just fine with CentOS for most cases. Check out the new Fedora > Toolbox command ('toolbox') — this makes it super-easy to launch and > maintain "pet" containers using podman, and you could use this to provide a > Fedora working environment for when you need newer stuff. (Or conversely > people running a Fedora OS can do the opposite with a CentOS container.) > > One thing I'm curious about, though -- you mention installs getting to be a > drag. Have you tried the update process in the last few releases? It's > basically like applying a big set of updates, with no reinstall required. It is good to do re-installs regularly to avoid problems like whatever file-system in Fedora N does not work with containers (or some other new feature).. but the Fedora N+1 filesystem does. You can only get that availability by reinstalling or creating a new file-system which you put stuff into... so in many ways a fresh install is usually good to do every 4-6 releases so that you aren't debugging 'why doesn't this new utility work' -- Stephen J Smoogen.