Preupgrade : Upgrade to F11 without downloading the entire DVD

ankursworld — Wed, 06 May 2009 08:00:39 +0000

This has been around for quite sometime now. This post is intended to make everyone aware of Preupgrade’s existence and to answer any queries regarding it.

What is Preupgrade?

Downloading a new Fedora release, burning the DVD and reinstalling the entire thing is very time taking and requires enough bandwith . Preupgrade is an application that allows you to upgrade to the latest Release without having to do the above mentioned steps. It only downloads updates to packages that you have installed on your system in the background, and runs the final upgrade once this is done. Hence, it saves time, bandwith.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade

https://fedoraproject.com/wiki/Interviews/PreUpgrade

There’s also the “icon way” of upgrading, ie, no terminal needed.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg00255.html

The LUG will have the DVD media too. Interested people may please contact us.

The F11 preview DVD is available with us. Please refer :

http://forums.lugmanipal.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&p=1414#p1414

F11 release build – up

ankursworld — Sat, 02 May 2009 11:32:49 +0000

Here’s a post on links to the upcoming F11 release .. Most of it is from the marketing list.. I did add a few though…

http://ostatic.com/blog/history-and-releases-are-cyclical-this-is-fedora-11

“The Fedora Project is rolling out some impressive new features and
functions with Leonidas. One of the most notable is the use of ext4 as
the default file system (while many distributions are planning on making
ext4 the default in the near future, some recent releases have chosen to
keep it optional this time around). The Fedora team says that aside from
ext4 performance enhancements, Leonidas users will be treated to faster
boot and shutdown procedures, an automatic font, codec and clipart
installer, and the DeviceKit device management tool designed to work
with (and sometimes stand in for) hal. Fedora 11 users can also look
forward to updated versions of the KDE, GNOME, and Xfce desktop
environments, improvements in direct rendering, and better volume
control and power management tools.”

For more reading on the F11 release..

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3817686/Red+Hat+Fedora+11+Focuses+on+the+Linux+Desktop.htm

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora_11_preview&num=1

http://www.h-online.com/open/Preview-of-the-Fedora-11-Linux-distribution-with-new-update-function–/news/113170

http://www.osnews.com/story/21388/Fedora_11_Preview_Release_Announced

http://ostatic.com/blog/history-and-releases-are-cyclical-this-is-fedora-11

The following one talks about the alpha release

http://linuxsysconfig.com/2009/03/fedora-11-preview/

For more from fedoraproject.org on F11 :

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_F11_schedule

The screenshots and tour page is UP!..

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_tour