Move, or reinstall new?

[Collins]

On Thu, 6 May 2004 08:19:45 +0200
Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:

> On Wed, 5 May 2004 16:10:44 -0400 (EDT)
> Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> 
> > FWIW, i've never been a very big fan of fresh installs.  They take up so
> > much time for me to tweak everything the way I like/need it.  And on top
> > of that, upgrading rarely goes 100% smoothly.  There's always stuff that
> > is either broken, or just isn't compatible with the new version.
> 
> Sounds very very Gentoo-ish. Which is great. Install once. Keep up-to-date
> incrementally.
> 

Audience please note - I didn't even have to pay Roger to come up with that <g>.

My $.02. Other than using gentoo which is imminently upgradable because installed-from-source, I've never had very good results with upgrade procedures on binary distros. RedHat (and I presume FC1/2 are the same) doesn't have a really clean track record.

The negative in doing a reinstall, as someone has already pointed out, is applying all your local tweaks to the system. You do, of course, have a complete log of all your customizations <g>.


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