Am 07.03.2011 10:30, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
Op 2011-03-07 11:06, Mark Morgan Lloyd het geskryf:
however is that Debian/Ubuntu do have a fairly well-tested mechanism in
place for upgrading libraries etc. when necessary, while Slackware- at
least when I last looked- has to be reinstalled which is significant
work.
I wouldn't know about OS upgrades - even for Ubuntu. I *never* upgrade
an OS, but rather install from scratch. With my current partition
layout, no matter which Linux distro I use, it is very quick and easy to
do.
Well... in ArchLinux "upgrading" the OS just means updating the system,
because Arch follows the principle of a rolling release with rather
bleeding edge packages (like Gentoo, but normally not compiled from source).
Of course it's a bit more critical, because you might experience some
surprises here and there. E.g. around two years ago ATI stopped
supporting my graphics card with their binary driver and so my computer
had suddenly switched to the VESA driver, after I had it switched on
again... (I then switched to the open source driver pretty fast ^^)
Regards,
Sven
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