FC5 worth upgrading from FC4

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article

Would it make sense for me to replace my 2006 FooMobile with the 2006 1-2 when they come out? ;-)

You should upgrade when one of the following occurs:

1. The old version is no longer supported. 2. There is a new shiny feature in the new version you can't live without. 3. You feel that having the highest version numbers is cool.

Waiting - yes, but is there any really good reason you need to upgrade? If you are just a casual user, this probably isn't a big deal. Our upgrade path begins with several of us taking CDs into the maintenance area, and loading it onto test boxes and playing with it until we can come to a consensus of what our new installs should look like. Then we load that install onto several more systems and mirror representative production systems for one backup cycle (eight weeks). If nothing earth-shattering is discovered in that period, we bring in staff on a weekend, and pour the new installs over the production systems. The following Monday can be "interesting", but we've only once had to revert to the previous installation (when we tried to go to Red Hat 4.1 in 1997), and that was only the print servers.

Checked it how? Looking at a mirror, the updates server has nearly 800 packages for FC4, totalling 2.15 Gigabytes. The latest kernel update that I see is kernel-2.6.15-1.1833FC4 from about 2 weeks ago.

Old guy