Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Nov 1998 10:07:55 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Hello Chinese student |
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On 6 Nov 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Have you check slackware lately? While it was true that they were shipping >> outdated packages and not fixing bugs for a few releases, the past few have >> been much better. >> > >Have they ever fixed the problem that upgrading at least used to be >impossible (or nearly so)?
What? Are you calling backing up everything on your 10Gig hard disk, formatting all partitions and installing a whole new distribution, then spending 3 months reconfiguring everything back to the state it was in before starting - impossible? It's actually quite easy, it just takes 3 months. ;o)
Thats opposed to the 30 minutes or so it takes to upgrade a RedHat system.
-- Mike A. Harris - Computer Consultant - Linux advocate
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