Re: Upgrading 7.1

Mark Cooper wrote:

> Can anyone tell me the best/correct way to upgrade a Redhat 7.1 system?
>
> First off, the system uses up2date so has all the latest ( 7.1 ) updates.
> Which version should it be upgraded to 7.3, 8.0, or 9.0?
> Should it be incrementally upgraded? For example 7.1->7.2->7.3 ?
>
> I realise I could boot from one of the newer distrib's and go through 
> the upgrade rather than fresh install routine, but I'll then need to 
> go through the whole up2date routine again, is this correct?
>
Since Red Hat has shortened the support life of its releases you are 
best to go with the newest release which is 9. Also 9 is, in my opinion, 
the best standard release so far and being newer 9 has much less to update.

Update directly to 9, incrementing would do nothing.

-Joshua