Upgrading Fedora 12 to the latest Fedora 14

Fedora 14 was officially released on November 2, and my Fedora 12 has been in use for more than 1 years, although still very stable, but still want to catch fashion.

Completely reload of course is reluctant to, so Google a bit, found preupgrade this tool can be used to upgrade the system, details see: Http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade.

Upgrade is still very stupid words, the only problem is because my home network is not very good, download the upgrade package process can not find mirror and terminal once. After starting again, it is just the early morning 5~6 point, to the average speed of 600K crazy download, quickly put 1917 upgrade package under the good, and then is installed, there is nothing to say.

After the upgrade to check the compatibility of software, found in addition to very specific software, such as Amule and Vim (vi), other can work properly. Amule has to be recompiled again.

After the upgrade, use Package-cleanup--orphans to check the garbage package, not many. I was annoyed to see the rubbish, so I was ready to delete them manually. The first to delete is Modemmanager, with the command is Yum remove XXX, because did not carefully look at its dependency, the result directly input y after all depend on its networkmanager have been deleted, so my network is interrupted ......

Fortunately I for the accident, already under the FEDORA14 of the DVD ISO file, then put on the ISO to its packages inside find Modemmanager and NetworkManager, all loaded, restart, network and OK.

This shows that there is a risk of escalation, delete the package should be cautious.

Overall, the FEDORA14 and previous versions of the Gnome interface have not changed very much, the sense of stability of resource utilization has improved, some software has increased ease of use-a little progress every time, this is enough.