Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 08:51:55 -0800 From: Travis Cole <tcole@wcug.wwu.edu> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: "Robert A. Bruce" <rab@pike.cdrom.com>, Dave Yost <Dave@Yost.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Linux PR firestorm disaster (w.r.t. FreeBSD) Message-ID: <19990301085155.C8259@wcug.wwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990301080314.03f30a70@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 08:09:37AM -0700 References: <Your <4.1.19990228230524.03f56a70@localhost> <199903010700.XAA29024@pike.cdrom.com> <4.1.19990301080314.03f30a70@localhost>
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On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 08:09:37AM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 11:00 PM 2/28/99 -0800, Robert A. Bruce wrote: > > >>Easier installs, especially network installs > > > >Okay. This is a good point. I have heard that until recently > >Linux didn't support upgrades at all, but required complete re-installs. > > There's no procedure like Jordan's semi-automatic upgrader. Actualy Debian supports very easy upgrades with dselect, and once apt is rolled into a release (in 7 hours 12 min) upgrading debian from one release to another will pretty much be a matter of typing: # apt-get update # apt-get dist-upgrade That will download, or copy off a CD or HD partition all the new packages needed and install them in the correct order to satisfy any dependancy problems, and prompts you on how to deal with new config files and such. It has worked quite well in my experience. Although I do prefer # make buildworld # make installworld -- --Travis I think that also applies to any OS which is run by inherently conservative people who, in many cases, are old and wizened and a little closer in temperment to Yoda than Luke Skywalker. Luke might be flashier and get all the girls, but he makes more mistakes. :-) (Jordan K. Hubbard on FreeBSD vs Linux) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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