I am making a guess that we are talking home use here? With todays modern hard disks, space is quite cheap (under $5US/Gbyte). How about a three version install. (4-6GB each and 2 /home partitions on a 40GB no problems). With jpg's, mp3's, ogg's etc on a seperate disk or backed up to CD-R. You can have: - Your stable version - Your fiddle version (Stable with custom mods, new add-ons, and experiments) - Mandrakes upcoming release/ bleeding edge/ whizzbang version. This is my aim soon as i buy the disk. I think Tom does this well. He has full cooker as one version IIRC.
Unfortunately bleeding edge software is often created for the latest greatest version kernel/compiler/window manager. On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:31, Robert Wideman wrote: > >> This is probably a difficult ask. But what I would like to see > >> is a longer time between versions (eg. 12+ months) for the regular > >> desktop edition, and a simple, reliable method for updating > >> packages in the meantime for those who want to (for all those > >> things that don't qualify for Mandrake's Update facility). > > I totally agree with this. I cant stand the fact that an OS is released > even every 2 years. I think they should stick with updates as opposed to > version release and just do the updates. But then again i have heard about > ppl having NO problems with release UPGRADES. I havent tried it myself. I > dont believe in OS upgrades (then again that is a MS issue). > > >> I often grab things from cooker - generally source RPMs - to > >> install myself. But as time goes by, depencancy issues and library > >> incompatibilities increase until I give up and simply wait for the > >> next Mandrake upgrade. It would be nice if this was different. > > I will have to try this out myself on the updates and such. But i > personally wait till they come out from the stable releases unless it is > something like DVDRip or something like that that is bleeding edge new. > > Rob -- Michael
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