--- Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> RedHat, Mandrake, Slackware, Suse -- almost all the
> Linux distribution makers have been coming out with
> new
> releases every so often, sometimes two or three new
> versions every year, almost as often as Linus can
> bump up
> the "x" in linux-2.4.x. Last year's distributions
ofcourse upgrading to this new distros releases is not
really necessary :) if the old fits you well why
upgrade?
> When RedHat came out with 7.1, I feel compelled to
> upgrade
> my perfectly working 6.2, but why? (Upgrading here
> means
> deleting everything 6.2, except user data and many
> config files
> in /etc and elsewhere, and totally replacing with
> 7.1 binaries).
> I can see why I need to upgrade xfree 4.0.3 to 4.1,
> if there is
> a video driver supported in 4.1 that is not in
> 4.0.3. I can also
> see why I need to replace horde 2.2.4 with 2.2.6,
> since I need
> the CHANGE PASSWORD feature of 2.2.6 that is not in
> 2.2.4.
> But why make a clean and sweeping replacement of 6.2
> by 7.1?
>
clean sweeping/reinstalling is okay pag laruan lang
yung box or for development( testing purposes )
but this is the last option or even not an option on
production servers..
for the question of upgrade or build ( i hope you mean
build from scratch (reinstall) ) for production
servers i should say upgrade if it is only needed and
build (reinstall) make it a last option or a not an
option..
> Yet I get this creeping feeling that if I do not, I
> lose something.
this feeling should be overcome with reason :) every
sysadmin feels this i think :)
> (Actually, I use Admulinux 2.0, so this post is just
> for
> dramatic effect).
ako rin dramatic lol
-Dek
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