-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday September 29 2003 14:40, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Monday 29 September 2003 13:30 pm, Curtis Rey wrote:
Uhh gee.... I ran SuSE 8.0 for almost a year with no problems at all... but yet I tossed 8.1 in the trash after 4 long days of trying to get it to work ok...
Sounds like you've been running too many versions of M$ software.
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I assumed you were saying that any 'X.0' version was to be viewed with suspicion. I was disagreeing.
I was not trying to scare anyone away from an x.0 version, or make the inference that it would be unstable. I was also not directing it to the more savvy and experienced users. Moreover, there are new Linux users coming on board all the time. Some have previous experience with 'nix, some have come over from M$, or Mac, etc. I think it's easy from many of the many Linux faithful to forget that Linux noobs may not have insight into things we take for granted or as happen stance. Anders (as usual) has a good take on the situation. One should try to regard upgrades in a more deliberate manner and not just blindely upgrading an OS because of a version number or for that matter a new release. I personally have no compunction in upgrading. I have no illusions about any postive or negative effects this may have. But regarding the end users that are using this and may percieve the new version as a fix, or a set of new features, or whatever might want to consider that one should, again, try to do this in as thorough a manner as possibe. If one has data that they can't afford to loose - back it up. If one can't afford the downtime that may or may not happen then find a way to install the new version on a system that won't cause them that unwanted downtime so they can see before hand if any issues need to be addressed prior to installing the new version on a more critically needed machine. So, I not trying to suggest one needs to be suspicious rather one need to be thoughtful regarding this. Moreover the new users need to "be a"ware" of this. As I stated before, inevitably there are those posts by people that find themselves in a situation they would prefer not to be in, and this seems to peak after a new version is released - this is to whom and why I posted. Cheers, Curits :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/eLxUiqnGhdjCOJsRAnOLAJsFwpHobS8/txRNxNHAF29x1xAZyQCfSuEc +JQy3fhpEqpwbKWk0IGx5gY= =tyyr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----