On Mon, 05 May 2008 20:40:41 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: >> The notion of not upgrading a computer is common among windows users, >> but but not so among the linux crowd. > > Explain that to my RHL 9 box downstairs, my FC6 desktop, or my FC4 > laptop. And I work for Red Hat!
Dunno about Fedora. But upgrades of my Debian based backup-box and fax server (both 250 MHz Pentium) and my laptop (900 MHz Thinkpad) from woody to etch were pretty painless. It took them a few hours to suck the necessary packages. But no admin intervention was necessary. These things have improved a lot with Debian since the days of CD juggling. Seems like the notorious looong delay after feature freeze of Debian/testing is for a reason. >> Upgrades are cheap > > Ha! It takes a day of my valuable time to upgrade any of my machines, > as they're each customized and migrating the customizations is time > consuming. Not cheap. Compared to what an update of a comparable win machine would claim in terms of time and license fees, this is cheap! ;-) ---<(kaimartin)>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: +49-511-762-2211 Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover http://www.iqo.uni-hannover.de GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Knaak+kmk&op=get _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user