On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote:
> If you didn't run old redhat versions, and refuse to upgrade, you
> wouldn't have these problems.
Oh, yes, RedHat 7.2 is bloody ancient.
I upgrade when there's a reason. I don't have a reason to install 7.3 on
my devel box. My workstation, yes, but not that machine.
> "apt-get dist-upgrade" would have been a lot faster than installing mandrake,
> and spreading FUD (even with a url that points out that this was with 2.4.9-*)
> is bad, even if you aren't microsoft.
Since when is stating that RedHat has a screwy NTFS driver (in 7.2, I
forgot to mention; my apologies) FUD? It's not an attempt to drive people
away from Linux. It's not even an attempt to drive people away from
RedHat. I doubt it'll inspire any Fear, Uncertainty, or Doubt in anyone.
If it does, I think my previous post should be the least of your worries.
Getting apt-get working, then running "apt-get dist-upgrade" wouldn't
have been faster. (I don't use apt-get; updating the server farm from a
local NFS server is more time- and bandwidth-efficient, and kinder to
mirrors.) Installing a minimal (~150mb) Mandrake install went very
quickly. And besides, this relies upon the (false) assumption that I
wanted 7.3 on that machine.
Once again, another "latest is greatest" debate. Joy.
Why don't we throw in a editor/MTA/MUA/distro war in, while we're at it?
Jima