[Leaplist] Linux Advocasy: What they'll miss

[Mark W. Alexander]

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:58:10AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> 
> Before someone brings up upgrading rather than format/install, let me tell you 
> that my 20th century experiences with Linux upgrades were ugly, so I stopped 
> upgrading. My view -- the couple hours it takes to format/install is well 
> worth possession of a known state.

You're welcome to join us in the 21st century, Steve ;)

Of course you know my Debian bias but I'll admit I've been using Kubuntu for
home desktop use since Dapper because they're mostly for family members that
are all comfortable KDE users. Just went to Hardy Heron the other day without a
single hiccup.

On the Redhat side, we're all CentOS servers at work and we've gone from 4.0 to
4.6, sometimes a point release at a time and sometimes in one swell foop and
we've yet to have an upgrade fail. Ok... The time I tried to jump a box from
Redhat 9 to CentOS 5 was an epic failure but I just tried that on a lark
anyway. This is a huge :) since we're 90 miles away from our data centers and
remote upgrades means a lot of time NOT cruising I95.

mwa
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