[GLLUG] GLLUG

Ben Pfaff blp at cs.stanford.edu
Wed Jun 30 21:52:31 EDT 2004


"C. Ulrich" <dincht at securenym.net> writes:

> Every single time I've tried to upgrade a Linux distro to a new
> version, it either failed, left he machine unusable, or mucked
> the system up bad enough that it wasn't worth salvaging.

What distros have you used?  I have never had this happen.  The
last half-dozen machines I've had Linux on, I've installed Debian
exactly once (each) and then upgraded numerous times from there.
"apt-get update && apt-get -y dist-upgrade" always works for
stable and most of the time for unstable.

Seriously, Linux is not perfect--software never is--but you seem
to have had some really bad experience with it.
-- 
"GNU does not eliminate all the world's problems,
 only some of them."
--Richard Stallman


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