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On Sat, 5 Sep 2009, Dan Clough wrote:
How about the brand new shiny release of Slackware:
http://www.slackware.com/
A word of advice: Do not attempt to upgrade an older Slackware
machine (as a purely random example, say 10.1) direct to 13.0 by following
the instructions in UPGRADE.TXT. It hoses tar right off the bat, which makes
it rather difficult to either roll back the change or continue on to the
glibc upgrade that it needs to make the new tar work.
Ended up having to burn a Slack 13 boot CD and reboot off that to
get some working package tools, and then uninstall all the 10.1 packages and
do a relatively normal fresh 13.0 install (hold the disk reformatting).
At that, it was still less painful than any Windows upgrade I've
ever had to do, in that I got to keep /home, /usr/local, and most of /etc,
so I'm not going to be spending the next three weeks restoring things from
backup and hunting down obscure and possibly virus-ridden drivers for
probably out-of-business hardware companies on the 'net (though I did have
to recompile the kernel to get the antique sound card working right) and
tweaking settings to get the machine back to how I want it.
- --
John Campbell
[email protected]
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