RedHat, Mandrake, Slackware, Suse -- almost all the
Linux distribution makers have been coming out with new
releases every so often, sometimes two or three new
versions every year, almost as often as Linus can bump up
the "x" in linux-2.4.x. Last year's distributions are
the best of last year -- robust, feature-full, useful,
and best of all - they work.
When RedHat came out with 7.1, I feel compelled to upgrade
my perfectly working 6.2, but why? (Upgrading here means
deleting everything 6.2, except user data and many config files
in /etc and elsewhere, and totally replacing with 7.1 binaries).
I can see why I need to upgrade xfree 4.0.3 to 4.1, if there is
a video driver supported in 4.1 that is not in 4.0.3. I can also
see why I need to replace horde 2.2.4 with 2.2.6, since I need
the CHANGE PASSWORD feature of 2.2.6 that is not in 2.2.4.
But why make a clean and sweeping replacement of 6.2 by 7.1?
Yet I get this creeping feeling that if I do not, I lose something.
(Actually, I use Admulinux 2.0, so this post is just for
dramatic effect).
PMana
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