[oclug] RedHat 7.1 is out

[Warren A. Layton]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:31:29AM -0600, Gary Sandine wrote:

> I can't imagine working to configure a Debian box, and later doing
> an "apt-get upgrade", and watching it go, or whatever - yikes.  Does
> anyone really do that??

And I can't imagine having to reinstall for every minor release of a
distribution. apt-get has yet to fsck up my machine and it makes
upgrading very painless. 

You seem to think that "apt-get upgrade" blows away your existing
configuration files, which is not true (otherwise it wouldn't be very
useful). 

Warren

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