[ale] Fedora 25 or 26beta?

[DJPfulio at jdpfu.com (DJ-Pfulio)]

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