Any kind of timeline for when we might get Fedora 10 (and/or 11) in the distro wizard? As 9 has now EOLed.

Fedora 11 would be so cool. Also, I'd love it if this time they managed doing a truly minimal and lean image. Not some 1.5GB thing with X11, sendmail, pcscd and all this already installed.

I would also like to see Linode keep up with the latest Fedora releases.

As my Linode is still a Fedora 8 (which doesn't seem to be getting any updates any more, lol), I'm going to back it up and use yum to upgrade to 9, backup again, upgrade to 10, backup again, and then upgrade to 11. Should be fun!

I believe Fedora 11 is currently in testing and will be available via the Linode Manager soon.

-Tom

I have Fedora 11 built, and I'm currently testing it. There are a couple minor issues with bootup that I hope to have resolved by tomorrow.

Stay tuned, and thanks again for your patience.

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That'd be great! After some experimentation going to Fedora 8 to 9, I decided that doing the manual upgrade was too much work... that and it seems to install far more packages on to the system than I would like.

I see that Fedora 11 is now in the Distro Wizard. Does that mean it's ready/stable for us to use?

Yes, and I apologize for forgetting to bump the thread. Fire away!

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I just finished configuring and migrating my Fedora 8 Linode to my new Fedora 11 Linode...

Thank you!

by doing the aforementioned upgrade-backup-upgrade-backup steps ?

i'm looking into upgrading as well but i don't really want to spend two days on it....

No, I activated a second Linode for two days, used the Fedora 11 Deployment for it, used the disk image cloning feature between the Linodes to get a copy of my existing Linode. Once I'd copied the website directories, MySQL databases and configuration settings to the new Linode, I transfered the Fedora 11 profile and disk image over to my regular Linode and deactivated the second one. Only cost about 70 cents for the 1 1/2 days use of the second Linode... The only reason I had it for that long was because I started working on it in the evening of the first day, and I have a regular day job, so I didn't finish it until the next evening. If you knew what you were doing you could do it quite quickly