{"id":858,"date":"2017-12-10T19:02:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T00:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/?p=858"},"modified":"2020-04-11T20:52:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T20:52:27","slug":"upgrades-to-fedora-27-what-a-breeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/10\/upgrades-to-fedora-27-what-a-breeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrades to Fedora 27 &#8212; what a breeze!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past two weeks, I have upgraded two computers to Fedora 27 (from Fedora 25, having skipped Fedora 26 and enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malak.ca\/linux\/fedoralifespanindays.pdf\">roughly a year&#8217;s worth of Fedora goodness<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The two computers are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dell desktop (main system):&nbsp; Intel\u00ae Core\u2122 i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20GHz &#8212; no Hyperthreading, 1 TB 7200 HD, 8gigs memory; screen upgraded separately to an Acer widescreen, and old screen relegated to a &#8220;new to me&#8221; computer setup as a node on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcommunitygrid.org\">World Community Grid.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Acer laptop (secondary system):&nbsp;Intel\u00ae Core\u2122 i7-5500U CPU @ 2.40GHz (Hyperthreaded), now 500gig SSD HD, 8 gigs memory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two of the equipment upgrades are the screen on the desktop, which is now a used Acer widescreen, and the laptop&#8217;s 5200RPM 1TB drive was upgraded to a 500gig SSD.&nbsp; The laptop went from interminably slow to incredibly fast!&nbsp; The comment from my brother:&nbsp; &#8220;SSD&#8217;s are one of the few things that actually lives up to the hype.&#8221;&nbsp; In my experience &#8212; under linux, anyway.&nbsp; Under a corporate controlled windows box?&nbsp; Well I&#8217;d say that my work computer, with an SSD, needs the SSD speed just not to be unusable!<\/p>\n<p>The upgrades were incredibly easy this time, and fast, the new SSD installed on the laptop probably being the big factor.&nbsp; In fact, I was able to do the basic install in about 15 minutes, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/20160202Fedora23pre-installnotes.pdf\">the rest of my list<\/a> (made for Fedora 23, but the basic list is still valid) was easy to complete while on a business trip in the motel room during off hours.&nbsp; In fact, one of the things that took a couple of days to realize:&nbsp; Fedora has had difficulty with the UEFI on this machine in the past &#8212; it would install, and then not work, and I&#8217;d have to reinstall under legacy BIOS.&nbsp; Note that I have a BIOS password, so perhaps in the past I just figured out how to make it persistent.&nbsp; As for restoring the data, once home, I managed to easily copy all my data files from my desktop overnight.<\/p>\n<p>As for the desktop, having just gone through the process a couple of days earlier with my laptop, I was able to easily update, and then re-transfer my data from the laptop overnight, as well as update my data backup on my home server.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;big&#8221; thing this time?&nbsp; The hardware upgrades.&nbsp; The almost un-noticeable thing this time?&nbsp; The installs, which were incredibly easy, quick, routine, and almost easily forgotten.&nbsp; Sheesh, I&#8217;ve lost track of how many installs I&#8217;ve done over the years &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past two weeks, I have upgraded two computers to Fedora 27 (from Fedora 25, having skipped Fedora 26 and enjoyed roughly a year&#8217;s worth of Fedora goodness). The two computers are: Dell desktop (main system):&nbsp; Intel\u00ae Core\u2122 i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20GHz &#8212; no Hyperthreading, 1 TB 7200 HD, 8gigs memory; screen upgraded separately &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/10\/upgrades-to-fedora-27-what-a-breeze\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Upgrades to Fedora 27 &#8212; what a breeze!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,63],"tags":[26,62],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-fedora-linux","tag-computers","tag-fedora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}