[ale] Fedora 25 or 26beta?

[Derek Atkins]

Well, Fedora/Red Hat made this decision for me; they've slipped F26 beta
by yet another week.  I cannot wait until next week to install the new
laptop, so F25 it is.

-derek

DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> writes:

> I don't use fedora, but update about every 2 yrs, 6 months after a
> release.  I did my bleeding-edge time in the 1990s.
>
> Similarly, I only buy 1+ yr old systems. Never the newest.  Ryzen is
> interesting, but it will be more interesting in a year.  The same
> applies to whatever Intel puts out. I want to be 1+ yrs behind the
> bleeding edge so all the big issues have been addressed already.
>
> On 06/03/2017 07:40 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> I don't upgrade the base OS often because I have a bunch of extra stuff
>> that would necessarily need to either update or get recompiled. I don't
>> like spending precious time getting things working again. I want to get
>> them working once and enjoy using them.
>> 
>> My SOP is to update the system every 30-90 days unless I hit a bug in
>> something I use... That will get me to update some stuff sooner. I won't
>> upgrade the OS until at least 12 months if not 18, because that breaks
>> lots of things and takes much more time than an in-OS update.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> On June 2, 2017 11:54:54 PM EDT, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>     Take the plunge! Go alpha and an update every 12 hours!
>> 
>>     Really new laptop may benefit from really new driver list. 
>> 
>>     Me? I install current release and upgrade to next about 2-3 weeks
>>     after release. 
>> 
>>     On Jun 2, 2017 10:53 PM, "Derek Atkins" <derek at ihtfp.com
>>     <mailto:derek at ihtfp.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>         New laptop just arrived today. This will be my primary system
>>         once I install and migrate from my current Fedora 23 system.
>>         Normally I like to jump 3 releases at a time, but Fedora 26
>>         isn't ready yet. But the beta is coming out Tuesday (and final
>>         is due in July)..
>> 
>>         So.. pros and cons.. install f26-beta on Tuesday and hope
>>         nothing breaks. Might require frequent updates and reboots. But
>>         very likely to get bugs fixed. Or install F25, and then either
>>         keep that until EOL and then update to 27 (or delay for 28).. or
>>         just update to 26 in July..
>> 
>>         What does the peanut gallery think. I've honestly never been in
>>         this situation. All new laptops previously have been strongly
>>         into a single version .. and the 18-month update cycle fits into
>>         my 3-year refresh cycle. :-)
>> 
>>         Thanks. Happy weekend.
>>         -derek
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