On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:20:17 -0500 Fraser Campbell <fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
Or run, don't walk, to http://www.debian.org/ and find out about an OS that's been offering stability and rock-solid upgrade procedures for 10 years.
It's getting more tempting. Mandrake 9.2 has *not* been very stable. Not to the point of something like XP, but not what I was used to with 9.1. However, today for example, I upgraded the kernel: urpmi --update kernel urpmi --update kernel-source then run the NVIDIA installer, and boom I'm up again, with LILO configured automagically. I'm hoping the new kernel (2.4.22-21) will prove more stable, but if it doesn't, is apt similar in it's "user friendliness"? Like when I update Apache, it's not going to require me to reconfigure, apt-get does the necessary fiddly bits for me? I don't mind having to learn a bit more about the guts of my system, quite the contrary, but I'm not looking for *too* much of a leap, like Slack or Gentoo. Just curious. Merry Christmas all! -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third."-- Timothy Leary -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml