On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 19:28:11 +1200 Chris Bayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 > that's reassuring - so on an athlon 600Mhz box it'd be about what? say 18 hours max? yes/no? cheers peter
