On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: >On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 09:03:30AM -0400, Jonathan Freiermuth wrote: > >:Short answer - yes. >:Real answer - yes, if you are willing to learn. >: >:I've never personally used Corel, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess >:that Corel did its best to hide the complexities of Linux from the user. >: >:Debian is a powerful system, and as such requires more knowledge >:about how and why things work. In other words, you can probably install >:debian off of an official CD, no problem, but you may have to recompile >:your kernel to enable reading the NTFS volume. > >I've never used Corel either so caveat lector, but if it's Debian >derived, can't he just edit /etc/apt/sources and do a dist-upgrade? > >This would leave the kernel in tact and let him keep all his data and >whatever frobs he likes from Corel.
Sort of. The frobs are often packaged with versioned-depends that preclude newer versions from fulfilling them. Corel 1.0 (slink) -> potato gives you a loss of wp8 because of versioned depends on type1inst for example. >-Jon > > > -- There is no problem so great that it cannot be solved with suitable application of High Explosives. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!