On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 19:32, David E. Fox wrote: > > well, that sux. I'm sure that the upgrade from cds will break tons of > > things. That's the reason I switched to freebsd :) > > Mine (via 9.0 urpmi) went fairly smoothy - despite that an upgrade > downloaded over 600 megs' worth of new RPMS :(. There was a little > glitch with apache (having both apache and apache2) but that doesn't > seem to affect anything here. I did lose functionality on the printer, > which I thought strange, but a delete and then adding a new printer > fixed that problem. (The printer would accept jobs but they'd > mysteriously go to /dev/null.) > > > I'm going to try 9.1 and if the problem with packages remains, bye bye > > You might try debian as well. Gentoo is supposed ho have a ports > system. I don't have enough experience to determine whether ports is > superior. > > In my (prior) experience with slackware, you basically upgraded > packages yourself, picked what you wanted to upgrade too, grabbed the > source code and recompiled. There wasn't any real upgrade path other > than reinstalling with a newer distro.
Slack follows a very BSD like system of upgrades. It also releases a lot less often. (about 1 every 18 months or so) Which is probably why one of the largest co-locate facilities in the valley is all slack... High reliability long life. In BSD I've run technically 5 year old installs that where as up2date (as a server) as the latest version. (it died when I could no longer buy replacement parts... most notably 33mhz ram. but ... my partner is using it in his house as a firewall now.) James > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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