Yum

Devan and I were chatting a bit about Fedora upgrades this morning. Given that he and I are both recovering debian users, we do miss (apparently) seamless live upgrades between releases. So following on the heels of Doug and Devan, here is my take on upgrades. First, offline upgrades will always be required for some cases. There’s always going to be some cruft we need to drop, and can’t do it on a live system. »

The Fedora Users and Developers Conference is on Friday. Weather permitting, I’ll be flying up to Boston to attend tomorrow night. In no particular order, here are the parts of FUDCon I am looking forward to: Cold Boston weather means I can wear my parka. Riding the subway. Meeting Mr. Katz and Mr. Vidal in person. The yum hackfest. Getting a free t-shirt. I plan to take lots of photos, but I usually forget my camera whenever I go anywhere, so we’ll see. »