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[dep]

begin  Net Llama!'s  quote:

| > i have successfully updated glibc and i have had updating glibc
| > break everything on the machine. i utterly destroyed my caldera
| > 2.4 install a couple years ago by such an update. it depends on
| > the degree of backward compatibility in the new version. one of
| > the greatest weaknesses in things linux is the view that backward
| > compatibility is an insignificant luxury. ask anyone who bought
| > the corel applications suite.
|
| I did the same on Caldera, and didnt' have a single problem.

i did also. several times. then i hit one that wasn't backward 
compatible. it's a roll of the dice.

| > linux was a lot easier back when it was too difficult to use.
|
| Sounds like its still that way for you dep.  While its nice &
| convenient to slander Redhat, it would be better if you actually
| had experience with a recent Redhat release before you attacked
| them without merit.

easy there, pampas prince. i'm not the one who posted about red hat's 
own update service breaking the system. and i no more attacked red 
hat ("i suspect that red hat is doing something similar") than you 
attacked suse ("Redhat isn't as dumb as SuSE apparently"). i'm 
perfectly happy that you're perfectly happy with red hat.
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dep

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