Fedora Upgrade Streak
FC1 FC2 FC3 FC4 FC5 FC6 F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 F12 F13 F14 F15 F16 F17 F18 F19 F20 F21 F22 F23 F24 F25 F26 F27 F28 F29 F30
I run Fedora on my primary workstation, and since Fedora Core 1, I have continuously upgraded this same install through all releases inclusively. It originally ran on an HP workstation something-or-other until moved (circa FC3) to its current home in an HP workstation xw8000 with 3GB of RAM. An additional complication is that I have three graphics cards lighting up four monitors, a requirement for a truly successful upgrade. These upgrades have not always gone smoothly (in some cases, not even remotely). In many cases it would have been far easier to start with a fresh install, but what is the fun with that?
Prior to F11, they were primarily media-based upgrades from CD/DVD. From F11 to F17, they were generally yum upgrades. Since F18, they have been fedup upgrades.
F21 finds the installation migrated to two new environments, laptop and virtual machine.
F22 introduces dnf upgrades.
UPDATE 2010-01-27: F11 -> F12
UPDATE 2010-08-12: F12 -> F13
UPDATE 2011-01-13: F13 -> F14
UPDATE 2011-08-16: F14 -> F15
UPDATE 2012-05-04: F15 -> F16
UPDATE 2012-08-15: F16 -> F17
UPDATE 2013-04-08: F17 -> F18
UPDATE 2013-09-25: F18 -> F19
UPDATE 2014-01-30: F19 -> F20
UPDATE 2015-02-21: F20 -> F21
UPDATE 2015-07-12: F21 -> F22
UPDATE 2016-01-24: F22 -> F23
UPDATE 2016-07-21: F23 -> F24
UPDATE 2017-01-04: F24 -> F25
UPDATE 2017-08-21: F25 -> F26
UPDATE 2018-02-10: F26 -> F27
UPDATE 2018-08-03: F27 -> F28
UPDATE 2019-10-22: F28 -> F29
UPDATE 2020-03-01: F29 -> F30
Alas, the 32-bit origins of this Fedora Core 1 image means this streak is on pause, at the least. But a new streak begins.
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