On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 17:12 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Should we take a poll on how many people want their machines to be > unbootable after an update? I can't say that I've experienced that, and I've been using Linux for quite a few years, now. I can say that I've seen some showstoppers when some driver has been updated on Windows, and reverting that can be quite a nightmare. In either system, I've done the odd update that's knobbled that particular thing, but that's about all. e.g. An update to your email client turns out to be a real downgrade. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.