Agreed, Suchi. It was the smoothness of package management & upgrades that made me switch from Red Hat / SuSE to Debian based distributions. I always partition my PCs with two root partitions, and on my laptop I run Kubuntu on one partition and Debian Unstable (which is actually quite stable) on the other.
-- Bhaskar Suchi Pande wrote: [KSB] <...snip> > > I don't know about the RH9 to centos move. But Debian and ubuntu > upgrades are almost trivial and best not done with a fresh install. You > just do an apt-get update, then apt-get dist-upgrade. Or if you are > using the synaptic GUI, it's all point and click I think. The catch is > that you need to keep your specially compiled stuff installed with care, > preferabty under home or /usr/local/bin/ to allow you to upgrade with > ease. > _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members