My Fedora system just told me it wants to upgrade to 11. I haven’t done a Fedora upgrade in years. They used to always blow up on me so I got into the habit of backing up what I needed and doing a fresh install. They roll out new versions pretty rapidly so I also got into the habit of skipping every other version. I did break that pattern though when KDE 4 came out because I wanted to move forward as rapidly as possible as they fixed the pretty sever issues it had.

So we’ll see if things are any different now. The package manager software just popped up and so I told it to go ahead. Now it says it has 5 steps to preparing:

• Download release info
• Download installer images
• Determine which packages to download
• Download packages
• Prepare and test upgrade

It says I can just keep working away while it does it’s thing but I think I’ll try to stay off that box to some extent so it can get done as quickly as possible.