>Followup to: <00e901be0957$f8b70020$04c809c0@Fake.Domain.com>
>By author: "Anthony Barbachan" <barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com>
>In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>> >
>> >Strange, it wasn't broken for me nor many people that I converse with.
>> >The most broken distribution in recent years is Slackware as it insists
>> >on shipping buggy, outdated packages with known security holes and doing
>> >nothing about it.
>> >
>>
>> 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 outdated packages and not fixing bugs for a few releases, the past few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)?
>
Nope thats still the same, but I've always found doing upgrades not a very
good idea anyway. Usually that just ends up leaving a bunch of old left
over files and the upgrades usually cannot be uninstalled easily (if at all)
if needbe. Personally I've found it better just to install a new clean
system, then configure it to do everything that the old one did and swap
hard drives. A plus is that then the original system can be kept around
just in case, with the added ability of being placed back in service in just
a couple of minutes. Redhat still has some of its own anoyances, most
annoying the configuration files scattered all over the place and the
non-standard configurations.
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