On Tue, 4 May 2004 13:59:52 -0400, John Aldrich <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 10:13 am, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
If you say that other distributions - do you mean just Linux
distributions or BSB distributions as well? - offer a special kind of
upgrade path, whatever that should be, you should explain what you mean
with that to be able to say whether that is possible with Fedora/Redhat
in the same way.
Either, upgrading is upgrading and always means to get your whole system
to a higher state and not just updating applications. I do not know any
Linux distribution that would have a different policy.
So please feed us with details and names.
I think he's probably talking about Debian and related distros where you
just
do an "apt get" every night and it "automatically" updates everything to
the
latest version and there's no need to wipe and reinstall the way that
it's
often easier to do with RedHat / Mandrake / etc style distros.
Yeah that's probably the case. However, in my experience, I'm a firm
believer in 'starting over' with an OS every so often. More so with
Windows than with Linux, but continually 'updating' as compared to
'upgrading' is fine, but you just get so much 'crusty buildup' when you do
than IMHO.
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Mark Haney
Network, Database and Systems Administration
DoctorDirectory.com Inc.
