31 May
2013
31 May
'13
12:16 p.m.
On 05/30/2013 05:18 PM, hermann meyer wrote:
Am 31.05.2013 02:09, schrieb Ralf Mardorf:
Been running Sid for quite awhile. At times, doing an upgrade has hosed
things. Then I boot the machine from Aptosid live CD and restore my
system drive image ...
Haven't done a fresh install in years, although I'll have one coming up
sometime when I'm finally able to replace my dead main laptop. My
present laptops are 32-bit; the new will be 64-bit and running 64-bit
Linux. I've found only one program I use (a proprietary photoprocessing
app) that won't install on 64-bit anymore. Even their "64-bit" package
just attempts to install the 32-bit version along with IA32-libs ...
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On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 16:05 -0700, Len Ovens
wrote:
Indeed, with a rolling release model this isn't true. I'm using
debian/sid since a long time now, never do a fresh install, and there is
no difference to a fresh installed system at all.
greets
hermann So, fresh installs are still the best
Hi
Len :)
I prefer Arch Linux, the rolling release model usually does work
perfectly good.
Regards,
Ralf