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[Chong Yu Meng]

Hi Rick !

If you still have one more year to go, you should stick with what works. 
It'll take you a couple of weeks to a month to get used to another 
distro. If you're going to move to an OpenLinux-like distro like 
TurboLinux, it should not take you more than a week, Red Hat will take 
you about 2 weeks (because they have a lot of configuration crap), 
Slackware -well, that depends. I was never able to get Slackware working 
fine on my home system.

If you're doing mainly development work (like myself), and you just need 
a stable, familiar platform, then you should resist the urge to upgrade. 
I am a victim of this techno-lust, and have migrated in the past year, 
from OpenLinux to TurboLinux to Slackware to Spectra Linux, which is 
what I am using now. Wasted a lot of time without making my Java apps 
run any faster. In fact, if anything, bootup times are much slower now, 
because I've got  a lot crap running on my system :).

Regards,
pascal chong



Rick Sivernell wrote:

>List
>
>   I have been watching this last bit of conversation with bated
>interest. I am using Caldera stuff still. But it appears I need to do
>some heavy consideration of moving to something else. At this time I
>have a lack of funds to buy much in OS's. I like the setup of the
>eServer/eWorkstation 3.1.1 systems, but they are starting to fall back
>in the stable side of cutting edge. While I do not want bleading edge,
>since I am still do college software design for one more year. I would
>like the opion of this list, no flames as I know we all love our
>stuff <g>. 
>
>1.  Should I stay with what I have and just upgrade it as I can to xfree
>4.3 kernel 2.4.20.X gcc 3.2, I really do not care for kde and I am using
>xfce 3.18 xterm 3.19 ?
>
>2. dump it and move to another distro.
>
>System SCSI drives and cdroms NVida RNT2 video Asus P3 mobo.
>750+ meg memory soundcard nic and some other general stuff.
>
>Any thoughts here as to what direct I might want to go. Cheers to all
>
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