On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 09:57, Larry Marshall wrote: > It's not broken. Truthfully, it's simply faster to do clean installs than > to do an upgrade and it always will. You're not installing just an > operating system but rather a whole bunch of programs and tracing all the > dependencies and doing version control at the same time is going to be a > time-consuming task. > Or to put it another way.....unlike the magical word of fixed Operating systems such as Windows or Mac's, where upgrading one individual item is harder than eating one potato chip, and the updates only come around once every couple of years. Linux applications (in particular, Unix based systems in general) are prone to more self-contained upgrades, however sometimes those upgrades are to the deamons that run major parts of the system which other bits rely on. As Larry said...there is nothing magical about a new distribution version that can't be done by an individual given the time....I've heard of people happily motoring along on boxes where the last distribution installed was RedHat 5.2 and they've just upgraded from source when they needed something. PS...the distribution numbers are more chronolgical...all 7.2 means is it's later than 7.1, it dosn't mean its an incremental upgrade and theres nothing to say they have to be sequential (Mandrake used to add a single point when they were doing redhat value adds, RedHat goes x.0 -> x.2 in about 9 months then does (x+1).0, Slackware went from 4.2 straight to 7.0 for example) Andrew
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