On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Terry Collins wrote:
> > And again, with the next release, they plan to change everything to yet
> > another version of GlibC - so there'll be no upgrading - it'll be
> > re-install. It's almost as bad as WindoZ.
>
> Is this glib thing a RedHat thing or a Linux thing? In the past, I've
> been informed that it was a linux driven upgrade and that RH was just
> first cab off the rank.
To be honest, I don't know - but I doubt it's a linux driven thing - or,
at least, not as fiercly a driven linux thing as Rednhat would have us
believe.
> I've also never had a successful RH upgrade. It has always required a
> complete re-install. So now I usually partition off what I want to
> keep and install the new stuff as needed.
I think I managed to upgrade 3.x to 4.2 once. Once. :-)
> I agree that Linux has become just as bad as Windoz with its upgrade
> treadmill every few months, but as I decline to play bleeding edge, it
> doesn't worry me. I just install the latest at the time and leave it
> until it is broke.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I do - or until I find something which I
want to install that won;t work without an upgrade.
DaZZa
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