yum upgrade hangs

Eric Dunbar eric.dunbar at gmail.com
Tue Jul 12 07:28:25 MDT 2005


On 7/12/05, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Spundun,
> 
> Unless you're particularly wedded to your current install I would
> suggest you bite the bullet and start fresh with 4.0. Upgrading to 4.0
> from 3.0.1 was less than a satisfactory experience for me. It worked,
> but it didn't work well. X/GNOME/KDE were fairly broken as was the GUI
> updater mechanism.

I must point out that it was the upgrade process that I found
unsatisfactory -- it's a crap shoot IMO. I'm sure that 4.0 is a more
useful OS than 3.0.1 for most users (I don't use any features and
software special to 4.0/4.0.1 so I can't comment on 4.0 vs. 3.0.1).

Eric.


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