on Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 10:07:47AM -0500, Walter Dnes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:17:08AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote > > > You clearly haven't grasped the philosophy of Debian. The above > > paragraph betrays a gross misunderstanding on your part. > > > > You *don't* "wipe and reinstall" to do a Debian upgrade. You run: > > > > # apt-get update; apt-get -u dist-upgrade > > > > ...and your packages are updated in place. > > > > No reboot necessary, with the exception of kernel updates, and IIRC a > > recommended restart (single-user was sufficient) for a really hairy libc > > update. > > It looks like I'm going to have to do a lot of un-learning of Redhat > in addition to learning Debian<g>.
Fortunately, many of us here are RH refugies. Some even still use it
(many clients equate GNU/Linux as Red Hat). And some like it, though I
believe it's fair to suggest that's a minority position.
My first six months of Debian (after 10 years of Unix and 2.5 of RH)
were constant revelation and "Aha!" moments. While I still have some of
these, they're not quite as constant. Occasional bouts of "I really
*love* this distro", though. And I still marvel at stuff like:
# auto-apt run
# make <some horrendous third-party source package>
> Reminds me of The Firesign Theatre comedy album... "Everything You
> Know is Wrong".
And all Cretans are lairs.
> --
> Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Email users are divided into two classes;
> 1) Those who have effective spam-blocking
> 2) Those who wish they did
Binary classifications are divided into 10 categories.
Peace.
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Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
The truth behind the H-1B IT indentured servant scam:
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/itaa.real.html
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