Re: [linux-audio-user] FC2->Fc3->Fc4->Fc5->FC6->FC*: it's crazy!

From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Nov 15 2006 - 06:19:07 EET

On 11/14/06, Brad Fuller <brad@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> every time there is a new Fedora Core, I usually get around to moving to
> the next version. However, for me, it's a bit of a pain to do because
> you really have to wipe the disc and start all over.. ."upgrading"
> Fedora doesn't really work well. At least for me it doesn't.
>
> Don't you find this a bit irritating? I do. It's not hard, it just seems
> unnecessary.
>
> Are other distros better at upgrading but also provide all of the nice
> features that Fedora does? (there are a lot of audio apps available in
> rpm for Fedora. I just can't spend my time compiling each and every one
> when updates come along.)
>
> What do others do?
>

Gentoo. My longest running machine is 4 years this Thanksgiving. I
just run emerge -pvDuN once or twice a year and it goes on chugging
along. My 78 year old dad doesn't even know an upgrade has happened
unless Evolution or Firefox change the way they look.

Cheers,
Mark
Received on Wed Nov 15 12:15:06 2006

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