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From: Bob <rear@sirius.com> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 16:06:08 -0800 Message-Id: <00112216070200.06055@gandalf> Subject: upgrade question I am going to upgrade from 6.3. Should I move to 6.4 or 7.0? What are the pluses and minuses of each? -- Bob Rea Freedom is only privilege extended unless enjoyed by one and all --Billy Bragg rear@sirius.com rrea@askjeeves.com http://www.sirius.com/~rear
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From: kastus@tsoft.com Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 19:23:06 -0800 Message-ID: <20001122192306.D2456@fizia.local> Subject: Re: [SLE] upgrade question On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 04:06:08PM -0800, Bob wrote:
I am going to upgrade from 6.3. Should I move to 6.4 or 7.0? What are the pluses and minuses of each?
It depends. If you use 6.4 distribution on CDs you have to download ~600MB of updates. 7.0 has less updates. 7.0 installs XFree 4.0, while 6.4 uses 3.3.6. I'm using 6.4 at home and recently installed 7.0 at work. As long as home system works fine I am not going to upgrade it to 7.0. -Kastus
-- Bob Rea
Freedom is only privilege extended unless enjoyed by one and all --Billy Bragg
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