Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 4 Nov 1996 10:19:31 -0500 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: Kernel Upgrade |
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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 11:30:14 -0800 (PST) From: Rob Glover <potato@dsnet.com>
Your best bet: Make a backup of everything, and install slackware 3.1 or something new. It would a major pain in the dumper to upgrade everything
A better bet would be to install a distribution which allows painless upgrades without requring that you do a backup and re-install from scratch. Examples of such distributions include the RedHat and Debian distributions. As a bonus, such distributions usually pay more attention towards fixing security bugs (and bugs in general), and allow you to easily download an upgrade package which will fix the one or two programs which are broken (again without requiring a reinstall from scratch).
At this point, I can't really recommend that anyone use Slackware, when there are far better choices available.
- Ted
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