On 22 Dec, Jeff Waugh replied to: > > I think it's time to try installing gentoo, and leave all these upgrade > > problems in the past. > > You just need a recent distro - and you don't have to go to extremes to get > one. :-)
Upgrading to a new version of a distro is always a big hassle, taking days to get working as well as the old one. That's *why* I'm still running 7.2 (albeit heavily updated) on this machine. To me, if I'm going to put in that amount of effort, it makes more sense to put the effort into switching to a distro that's *designed* to solve the upgrade problems, so I won't have to worry about it ever again. Interesting to note that the commercial distros, who do have some commercial incentive to have you pay for upgrades and new releases, haven't done a lot to solve this problem -- whereas Debian and Gentoo, both non-commercial, have very good to excellent upgrade/update systems. SuSE's YOU system is okay but hasn't blown me away, and Red Hat's "up2date" only works for critical security updates (though you can pay for more, I believe). Debian's apt-get plus Synaptic are fine, but rely on people back-porting updates to old systems, so ultimately you get stuck because your version is just to old. So that's not a long term solution either. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
