Peter Elliott wrote:
a query re maintainability - how often is it necessary to do updates of key parts of the system? or big beasts like kde & co?
cheers
peter
It all depends what you what to keep with, security issues are generally an issue in smaller packages i.e apache,squid,bind etc.
You can run Xfree 4.2.x for as long as you want really or maybe you are playing with dvd or OpenGL or something that may require /encourage an update to 4.3 etc.
I just did an update of 52 packages including xfree, kde and mozilla - it was complete by breakfast (6 hoursish on P4 1.6)
/chris
