On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 07:30, Todd Lyons wrote: > Ron Stodden wrote on Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:39:53PM +1100 : > > > > Since you are going from 8.1 to 9.0, this is a major step (8-->9) and > > compatibility may not be assumed. > > This is true. The upgrade process is really intended to go from the > previous release. If it happens to work ok from two or three releases > back, but you are just lucky that you have the right combination of > packages (or that you don't have the wrong combination :)
Just to rant: Does anyone remember the days when going from version 8 to version 9 was considered a normal upgrade. I just can't understand why I have to keep up with every minor upgrade, specially when things are working fine. An upgrade to 9 should support upgrading from versions going back to at least 8.0. I have been using OS X at work, and if it wasn't for the expensive hardware, I'd switch in a second. Unix plus a minimum of this kind of stupid headache is just great. But I like being able to turn off the GUI, so I'm stuck with this kind of crap. I am discovering that this upgrade has broken a lot of my installed apps. I just skipped from 8.1 to 8.2 for pete's sake. 3D hardware acceleration gone - I had to compile a newer version of Mesa than came with 9.0. It was working in 8.1 - why break it? JBuilder - sound doesn't work, and if it is even enabled the IDE quits every 5 minutes quanta - wont even start, missing dependencies (isn't this supposed to be bundled?) Xine craps out every 2-3 minutes - welcome to life without porn ;-) I upgraded a week ago and my productivity is still down. And I am not a completely clueless user. At this rate it will be version 156.7.3 before Mandrake is ready for the masses. (And don't try upgrading from v. 156.7.1) Here endeth the rant. MVH
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