Rachel Greenham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 4. For the fun of it. :}
>
> This reason should not be underestimated you know. :-)
Quite true. Actually, that's the best reason of all. :}
>
> But here's another: The problem in not upgrading kernels until you're forced
> to, with such a wonderful OS as Linux (:-)), is that you could be using the
> same kernel/distribution version for so long, that when something comes along
> that means you *do* have to upgrade, you have to do a very big upgrade and
> discover that lots and lots of things have changed just enough to break an
> interesting amount of the software you're running.
Absolutely true. And that's about where I am now. I have silt in the
bottom of /usr/local going back to Slackware 2.something. I'm starting to
get excited about glibc and 2.2.x. But I've made the decision that, rather
than rolling another layer over the ruins and trying to fix everything that
breaks, I'm gonna do a scorched earth upgrade next time. As in repartition
the drives and start from scratch. But that's not something I want to try
to do in an afternoon -- I'll have to pick a time when I have time to do it
right...
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