On Saturday 04 November 2000 02:17 pm, Rick Commo wrote:
> This is really aimed at understanding "best practices" from a wide
> number of possibilities, especially given the cheapness of HDs
> these days.
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> Do any of you who have lived in the Unix/Linux world for a long
> time have strong opinions or experience on which, if any, of these
> might be the preferred way to set up a system?
The only opinion I can offer is it's all up to each users
preferences and perceptions. My preference is to always do a clean
install on a desktop system. I have only a /swap and / partition,
so they start fresh with every install. My perception is that many
apps often undergo major upgrades, so why keep all the old stuff?
It's the same situation with the base linux system, kernels and
libraries are constantly being upgraded, so very often, saving a
bunch of old apps isn't even an option.
I think this is especially true with Mandrake. Each successive
version I've installed (6.0 > 6.1 > 7.0 > 7.1 > 7.2) has contained
more an more of the programs I want/use, that I now have only one or
two apps I need to get and install. As to important 'personal'
files that I've created, they're backed up to another HDD and
ocaisionally to cd-rw, so replacing them is easy.
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Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
