On Mon March 22 2004 01:15 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: ] I've done both. I dist-upgraded a Mepis system to 3.2 and it was hosed. I ] wiped the box, installed Woody/KDE, dist-upgraded to Sid and it's working w/o ] any major problems.
I still don't get why people think a pretty installer warrants such on-going pain. It's the old half-hour install .v. lifetime of maintenance argument all over again, I know. Nonetheless, I don't get it. I also don't get how distributions that aren't Debian can claim to be 100% compatible with Debian, given the surfeit of anecdotal evidence to the contrary. Jedd.
