Comment Re:If its not RedHat... (Score 1) 290
RedHat can (mostly) handle an in-place upgrade.
You would have to be crazy to try an in-place upgrade with Fedora. From their saying don't do it, they make you feel like failure is routine. And when I used Fedora for a few years (up through Fedora 12 I think), even minor upgrades (fixes, not full releases) broke sound-production again and again (as in for one fix I would have to add a 3 line alsa script to get sound output and for the next I would have to delete it again to get sound output). So I took their warning seriously and always reinstalled. And Pulse Audio (on Fedora back then) simply never worked.
Ubuntu, on the other hand (I use Xubuntu, Unity makes no sense to me -- I could never find anything I wanted)
has upgraded itself many times now without any
difficulty (Now running 11.10). So to label both as 'mostly' seems oddly at odds with my experience.
One caveat though: Network Manager has been a horror even on Ubuntu and sometimes reappears
for no reason I can discern -- deleting Network Manager and fixing a few scripts in