Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Hello Chinese student

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Sat, 7 Nov 1998 10:07:55 -0500 (EST)

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 outdated packages and not fixing bugs for a few releases, the past few have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


Linux software galore:  http://freshmeat.net




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