So I found out last night that I was running a slightly outdated version of Fedora. I was running Core 1 and it appears that Core 2 is released to the general public and is stable.
I did some research on how to upgrade and got results from "easy as cake" to "a nightmare - don't do it."
I thought "what the heck" and tried the in-place upgrade. I downloaded an image that I burned to CD (using the Linux free cd creator of course) so that I could do an FTP upgrade. I figured - what the heck - lets really go for broke.
So after a couple false starts (I had the path to the "stage 2" image wrong) I was able to complete a fully GUI upgrade from Fedora core 1 to Fedora core 2 in about 2.5 hours. I didn't even have to do much.
Also, it fixed an application I broke when I was experimenting (Evolution started generating errors). FYI - Mozilla for Fedora is not the same as Mozilla for windows.
I was trying to import my Outlook PST into Evolution and it wouldn't work, so I read somewhere that you could use Mozilla to do it. However, I didn't read close enough to see that you can't use Mozilla for Linux to do this.
So anyways I did this today - I have Mozilla on my work computer so I was able to easily import my Outlook.pst and Archive.pst and then export both my email history and conacts to the more familiar Mbox format which Evolution can then import.
Wierd - the 2 pst files were 22 megs, but the ENTIRE mail folder for Mozilla is only a few megs. Guess I will find out tonite if i got it all.
Anyways, now that I've performed the upgrade I'm going to keep playing - I still want to get WINE running so I can run windows apps and games, and I still have to play with MySQL and PHP.
I did some research on how to upgrade and got results from "easy as cake" to "a nightmare - don't do it."
I thought "what the heck" and tried the in-place upgrade. I downloaded an image that I burned to CD (using the Linux free cd creator of course) so that I could do an FTP upgrade. I figured - what the heck - lets really go for broke.
So after a couple false starts (I had the path to the "stage 2" image wrong) I was able to complete a fully GUI upgrade from Fedora core 1 to Fedora core 2 in about 2.5 hours. I didn't even have to do much.
Also, it fixed an application I broke when I was experimenting (Evolution started generating errors). FYI - Mozilla for Fedora is not the same as Mozilla for windows.
I was trying to import my Outlook PST into Evolution and it wouldn't work, so I read somewhere that you could use Mozilla to do it. However, I didn't read close enough to see that you can't use Mozilla for Linux to do this.
So anyways I did this today - I have Mozilla on my work computer so I was able to easily import my Outlook.pst and Archive.pst and then export both my email history and conacts to the more familiar Mbox format which Evolution can then import.
Wierd - the 2 pst files were 22 megs, but the ENTIRE mail folder for Mozilla is only a few megs. Guess I will find out tonite if i got it all.
Anyways, now that I've performed the upgrade I'm going to keep playing - I still want to get WINE running so I can run windows apps and games, and I still have to play with MySQL and PHP.
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