Fedora does it somewhat better, I think. Run PreUpgrade and reboot into Anaconda, which will do the right thing. At least it seems to be a more fault-proof stra

Fedora does it somewhat better, I think. Run PreUpgrade and reboot into Anaconda, which will do the right thing. At least it seems to be a more fault-proof strategy than dist-upgrade IMO. And of course with BTRFS, you can just make a snapshot right before the process and just roll back should anything go wrong. Of course there isn’t any UI for this yet, but hopefully we’ll get that as well, once Fedora adapts BTRFS as its default FS. Furthermore, the default installation strategy for Fedora is to keep /home on a separate partition or LVM volume, so a complete reinstall is also possible. As to the first point, it always takes some time, but Fedora 16 with latest updates is currently using Linux 3.3, KDE 4.8, Firefox 11 and Eclipse 3.7, so it’s not bad at all. Though Intellij IDEA CE is still on 9.0.