begin Brooks R. Robinson quotation: > > I've been blessed with Debian, essentially "grew up" on it), but I am told > that it (RedHat) basically requires re-installation. This is not so with
While I agree that he should use Debian, and that it's really easy to install if you have a modicum of Linux knowledge (or even if you don't, if you use tasksel and don't dick with dselect), RedHat upgrades are not as bad as you've been told. It does require rebooting with an install disk, but packages are upgraded in-place just swell. My current mail server is RedHat, and has gone through several upgrades from 5.1 to 7.2, skipping several releases in between, but the upgrades have gone pretty smoothly. The only problem I've had is when I had Ximian GNOME on a workstation on 7.0 and wanted to upgrade to 7.1, and that was solved by something along the lines of rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep helixcode` ...since it was Helixcode GNOME back then. I've stayed away from Ximian GNOME since then, and everything's peachy. -- Shawn McMahon | Information may want to be free, but fiber http://www.eiv.com | optic cable wants to be one million US AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | dollars per mile.
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