Mark Haney said: > 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. > There is definitely some truth to what you are saying, but shouldn't it be my decision when I want to do this? Some systems, particularly those which have no users, certainly don't accumulate much "crusty buildup" in just a couple of years. ____________________________________________________________________________ Bob Shaffer II - Owner/Developer/System Operator - BobShaffersComputer.com http://bobshafferscomputer.com/ telnet://bobshafferscomputer.com
