Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote:
- it's true that you can install whatever you want but after a while the installs/unistall makes your system very unstable. Many of my friends complain that they have to reinstall the whole system frequently (2-4 times a year).
Some "major" Linux updates are painfull. I remember a hard FC3 -> FC4 I had to make on a dedicated server (SSH only). I dont know if it's the same under Windows: is W2k -> W2k3 very easy? Is it just about Next-Next-Next-Next-(Agree)-Finish?
I've done a number of major linux version upgrades: redhat 8 to fc1, redhat 9 to fc1, etc. The upgrades were done remotely, while the boxes remained in service. It was a matter of copying an apt sources file and typing an apt-get command, then going about my other work while the systems upgraded themselves. There is no way that windoze can do that - with windoze you're going to sit down in at the peecee, boot from cd, and go through the install screens, reboots, driver installs, reboots, bug fixes, reboots and a lot of face time. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org