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Re: [LUG] Mandrake 10.1 CE-Available For Public Download



On Sunday 03 October 2004 8:20 pm, Grant Sewell wrote:
I have found that it'd be quite hard for me to 'upgrade' to any new
Mandrake system simply because _my_ Mandrake system is no-longer very
Mandrakian.

It's the same with other RPM based distributions.
It's also the same for MacOSX - it's three separate processes to update it and 
sometimes you need to do the first process again once the second one is 
complete.

The longer you have a particular setup, the more things you 
add here and there, and then promptly forget for months-on-end.

Tip: 
Always keep the default in /etc/ and look for ways of using ~/.whatever-rc 
files for local settings - even if you are the only user.

*I* would 
not upgrade to 10.1 because of this, however if your system is still pretty
much vanilla Mdk9.1, then I can't see that there'd be any problems. 

Thereagain, if you'd been sensible and opted for Debian . . . . 

Certainly if you actually install 10.1 over-the-top of 9.1 rather than
"upgrade"

I never had a successful upgrade with Mandrake between v7.0 and 9.0.
vs
Debian unstable is upgraded every morning, automatically.

:-)

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