I'm running fedora15 from last 8-9 months...

i'm confused...should i upgrade it to fedora 16 or not ?

what am i missing ?

If you're happy with it I'd stick with it until support ends for it (which will be whenever Fedora 17 is released.)

I'm currently testing out version 16 as an update for our Fedora 14 servers. Seems to be good so far. As a general rule if you don't change it you won't break it (and then you start talking about security and everything changes.)

Have you seen the Fedora Release Notes, that's a good place to get your question answered:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/...Release_Notes/

Fedora is a very fast-moving distro with a new release every 6 months and only 13 months of support. Therefore my answer to your question is "you should not use Fedora unless you are interested in upgrading every 6-12 months." If you are looking for a Fedora-like distro that you can use for many years without upgrading to a new release, then I recommend Red Hat or one of its clones (CentOS, Scientific)--however if you are used to Fedora 15 then Red Hat will probably feel like a step backwards in time.

I've tried Fedora 16 (see my review on this site) and it was pretty good.

As far as Travis's advice "if you don't change it, you won't break it" (very wise with Fedora!), you can get security updates only by installing yum-plugin-security and then using
yum --security update.

@ dEnDrOn

Why not try fedora 16 in a VM to see if you like it before committing to it.

You should update it if it has access to the internet.

If the system is behind a firewall that is very good or a isolated lan then you should stick with what you have.

fedora15 is my primary OS..i access internet through fedora only....

are you suggesting that i should keep updating fedora15 and there is no need to upgrade it to fedora 16 ??

I am suggesting that I assume that newer OS's are more secure. If you want to be secure then the thinking is to keep up to date.

That doesn't always work.


Only you can decide the quality of your firewall.

I've been running 16 since a couple of days after the (stable) release. Fresh install, zero problems. This is my daily laptop used for travel, virtual machines, humble bundle, videos, photos, the usual internet stuff via wifi......

Have fun!

did you try fedora 15 also ??

i want to know if it is worth upgrading or not ?

dEnDrOn, you seem to be quite anxious about upgrading to fedora 16. Our opinions are just opinions. Make the upgrade and judge for yourself. it's you who can determine if this upgrade is worth it or not.

i agree...completely!

I'd give it a shot then!

Great!

BTW, if you're going to upgrade from 15 to 16 (i.e not a fresh install) Fedora has instructions on doing upgrades
http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora

Scroll down and read Need to upgrade Fedora?

I went from F14 to F16. The only issue was with the move from Gnome 2.x to Gnome 3.2. The rest of the distribution was not an issue except for the increased memory requirements (it's up to ~700MiB now. I had to buy memory for two systems in order to upgrade. I have two other older systems I cannot upgrade. Since you have F15 and are already dealing with Gnome 3 and the memory requirements, I see no issue.

Others have said don't bother unless you really need something in F16. I agree with them. I typically upgrade only when the support ends, hence my reason for going from F14->16.