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Date:      Wed, 6 Oct 1999 01:20:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Joel Sutton <jsutton@bbcon.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Linux convert...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910060118260.8080-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910061503120.3043-100000@stargate.home>

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On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Joel Sutton wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, J McKitrick wrote:
> 
> > Will it be difficult to upgrade to 4.0?  I just got 3.2, and i am leery of
> > updating to 3.3 and breaking my system (even though it has features i
> > could use) since i've seen some problems on the questions list.  Won't 4.0
> > be even more likely to do that?
> > 
> Do any of the Linux distributions make it really easy to upgrade?
> 
> translated...
> 
> Can FreeBSD's upgradability be used as a selling point?
> 

Ah, you aren't familiar with the FreeBSD much hyped 
(or maybe not hyped enough... hrm) "make world" facility.

http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html

it makes for upgrades of entire machines a breeze.

-Alfred



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