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Fedora Linux Might Drop Incremental Upgrades, Let Users Skip a Release

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Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
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Fedora developers are currently discussing the possibility of a new upgrade method for future versions of the operating system that might allow users to skip a certain Fedora release and upgrade to the most recent version available.

As you might know, Fedora, and many other GNU/Linux distributions, requires users to do an Incremental upgrade when attempting to move from an older version of the operating system to the most recent one. For example, if you want to upgrade from Fedora 21 to Fedora 23, you will have first to upgrade to Fedora 22. However, this might change in the future.

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