I am of the not-so-humble opinion that Fedora’s upgrade process is about as pleasant as being forced to walk through the desert without a canteen of water. First of all, they recommend to just do a fresh install which is a non-starter for me. I’d have to waste way too much time restoring all my files and settings. Ubuntu and Debian seem to get me through upgrades without reinstalling without any problems. I blogged about the horrors up upgrading to Fedora 8 here and here. I blogged about how awesome the yum upgrade worked here, here, here, and here.

Well, although Seth Vidal and Will Woods aren’t quite ready to support live upgrades just yet. They did mention in Red Hat Magazine that they were working on Fedora Pre-Upgrade to address some of the issues. Here they explain what are most likely to be seen as the best features:

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