Though my apps are rather limited that is precisely why I chose to
install 6.0 on separate partitions rather than upgrade 5.3. Of course I
had to dispense with my Debian 2.0 and RedHat 5.1, but I felt assured
that I would allow myself time to upgrade at my leisure
Bob
Bud Rogers wrote:
>
> 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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