Although it does still have it's flaws, Gentoo is an easily upgraded distro. See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml to see how gentoo upgrading works...
On 6/13/06, Luke Kendall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
AFAIK, no Linux distro is considered quite safe to upgrade from one release to the next (e.g. from SuSE 9.2 to SuSE 10.0, or FC 4 to FC 5). Wise people still routinely advise "Install the new system on a spare partition, and switch over when it's properly installed and configured". The problem with this is that if you've tweaked things so that sendmail is running nicely, and you have all the RealPlayer and Flash 7 and innumerable video codecs installed, and your soundcard working well and the DVD burner (and TV card?) etc. etc. all working well - then you have to do all this work afresh on the new system, and that can take days. So: does anyone know of a Linux distro that is so easily managed and so well structured, that not only can you easily update all your packages (via apt or yum or whatever), but you can even upgrade the whole distro, 99.99% reliably? (And no, I don't really want to install BSD which can do this, I believe, because AFAIK Linux still has far greater hardware support and much faster development.) I suppose a halfway decent approach might be to mirror your old working system onto a spare partition, and *then* try running the upgrade on *that*. If it doesn't work, then you're no worse off, having only spent an hour or so installing/upgrading. I must be one of the few people on the planet still running RH 7.2. (I do it because I begrudge spending the days or weeks getting all the extra packages installed that I like.) But it's now too old, and really should be replaced. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
-- Menno Schaaf aka ginji irc.austnet.org #gentoo #linux-help -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
