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Upgrading from Fedora Core 6

An expert tells users with Fedora Core 6 not to worry about the merger; just upgrade to FC7.

Bernard Golden, ActiveState

Published: 09 May 2007

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The merger will take place for FC7, so it won't directly affect you if you're running FC6. If you update to FC7, I expect your life will get easier, as you can avoid one extra step to obtain software.

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