I just "upgraded" my RH8 installation to Fedora. If you choose "Upgrade" all the data and applications (in my case Gnucash) will be left intact. And only the distro is upgraded.

Hope this helps. Good luck.

inon^

Well, I always advocate for a fresh install. It wipes out any problematic files that you maybe forgot you installed. I know I am constanly trying new things and installing/uninstalling…and rpm has a nasty habit of renaming old config files which IMHO take up room I would otherwise employ. Plus, I dunno, it just seems right to me to reinstall every 3 months or so. But back up any data you want to have afterword of course. Just my .02$

I upgraded from RH9 into two of the Fedora test releases and now into FC1 and beyond.

I have not have any typical upgrade related issues, other than the inability to get the graphical boot to operate correctly (I know the correct method for enabling rbgb and how it operates in the initscripts, this is related to my video init and partitioning scheme).

I do recommend upgrade, but once you get the upgrade complete, make sure to check into programs that were available on FC1 that you didn't have from RH9. It will only upgrade what you have, and there is not package choice when upgrading. Other than this I have nothing I can say is a big issue to watch out for.

While reformatting and installing an OS, even Linux, makes a very nice clean system, it is time consuming to reconfigure your environment and isn't necessary unless you have issues you can't otherwise work around. Its always very refreshing to have it nice and cleaned out, but a whole lot of work when the benefit is low.

LordMorgul

No problems found yet after upgrading RH9.0. Really like the fonts in Mozilla. In fact I think the fonts are improved in Evolution also. Had to re-set a few settings and login to some websites, but this was painless. :cool:

Bucolic Buffalo