[UFO Chicago] UFO-Chicago Meeting Tonight 05/11/2025 -- RSVP; Fedora 42

[Jay F. Shachter]

Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that James L Mazurek would write on Sun May 11 11:03:04 2025:

> 
> The meeting is scheduled to begin at 7 PM and will run until about 11 PM.
> RSVPs are not required but are appreciated.
> 

I intend to be there, and to bring a laptop on which I have installed
Fedora 42.

You may recall an earlier meeting where I spoke about my Springdale
9.2 installations, observing that the Springdale project appeared to
be dead, and asked if there was any easy way to upgrade directly from
Springdale 9.2 to the current version (9.5) of some other RHEL clone.
You advised me to re-install completely.  I did as you advised, and
replaced one of my Springdale 9.2 systems with an Oracle 9.5 system,
and the other Springdale 9.2 system I replaced with the current
version of Fedora, Fedora 42.  Fedora 42 was so up-to-date that it
came with the Linux 6.14 kernel, which was, I think, less than 2 weeks
old when I downloaded Fedora 42, so new that when I tried to install
the most recent release of zfsonlinux, which was 2.3.1 at the time,
I could not build it.  I had to get one of the daily releases from
github.

This was the same laptop on which I tried to update an OpenIndiana
system to the most recent version, and the installation environment
didn't work.  We can try that again, if there is any interest.

                        Jay F. Shachter
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