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Being the early adopter that I am I’ll be installing Fedora 9 within a day or two of it’s release.
There’s nothing like installing a new release over a perfectly usable, customised and stable system just so I have the latest and greatest :-) Still that’s the fun for me, plus it’s a great learning experience, you learn the most when things break.

I’ve been with Fedora since Fedora Core 4 so I’m pretty good at getting my settings back after an new version is released. Of course I backup all of my .conf files located in /etc/ and I also have a text file with notes since there’s always some things that I just can’t remember (usually with Apache and virtual hosts for some reason).

Over the years I must say that it’s become much easier, partly because I know much more but also because the installer and whole release cycle seems much more polished.

Gone are the days when you’d get missing dependencies using yum at least once a week or cryptic error messages when trying to partition the disk during install. It’s all very smooth and uneventful these days.

This is quite a compliment for how far Linux has come in the last few years, especially since Fedora is intended to be one of the more cutting edge distros.