Any chance we can get a bump to the available Fedora distribution? It looks like F17 will go End of Life July 30th.

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/piperma ... 03169.html

Thanks!

+1. F17 is now past EOL. I'd like to upgrade my servers as soon as I can, given that they're not releasing even security updates.

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Jeffrey T. Darlington
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The availability of different versions of Fedora for new Linode deployments should not have any impact on your ability to upgrade your existing servers using Fedora's update mechanism...

I can't speak for Bill K., of course, but I've never trusted Fedora's automatic release upgrade system. It's botched upgrades on my personal machines before. I prefer building a new box from scratch, migrating my files, and running the two boxes in parallel for a "burn-in" period before switching the DNS to point to the new box's IPs. That gives me a chance to start test and fix problems before making the new box live.

Of course, I suppose I could clone the existing box and attempt Fedora's update mechanism there, but... I refer you to my first two sentences.

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In that case, you may have better success deploying a fresh machine and updating it before installing any packages. I haven't used RedHat for something like a decade, but a fresh Ubuntu install at Linode has about as close to zero packages installed as you can get. Presuming that Fedora's default install is similar, updating a fresh Fedora install should be lower risk since there's barely anything to update.

Linode does need to keep up with distro releases, though, I'd agree. I suspect that Fedora gets low priority since very few customers (2.2%) use it. I'm not trying to give an excuse for them, just a possible explanation.

+1 for some redhat updates. CentOS and Fedora are both over a year old, and Fedora is past EOL. Just searching through these forums shows issues people are having trying to use Fedora's built in upgrade mechanism.

As Linode is a dedicated linux vps provider, it's surprising to see a lack of support for one of the two main distro branches. Updating a Fedora image once a year doesn't seem too unreasonable.

The CentOS image isn't an issue as it's 6.2 and all you need to do is run a yum update. Fedora can't (usually) be easily updated between versions. I just logged in to the Linode Manager though and I see that Fedora 19 is now available.

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A Fedora 19 image was made available last week.

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