[Lilux-help] Slackware upgrade from 10.0 to 10.1

[Eric Dondelinger]

Hi,

On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 03:03:06PM +0100, Patrick Kaell wrote:
> I have to admit that I have never tried to update on OS (be it Linux or 
> Windows) beside security updates (and service packs on Windows).
> 
> I always do a fresh install.

You really want to have a look at Debian and apt.

It is the first system I've encountered where I *don't* fear
updates and actually (well, most of the time anyway) don't get
nasty surprises - especially on the stable version (unstable
moves a lot and does have surprises, testing moves and has
surprises only sometimes - like the upgrade from KDE 3.2 to
3.3 which did mess some things up for a while, i.e. uninstalls
3.2 on one run, and installs 3.3 only during one of the consequent
runs).

With any RPM-based distro, I've had really nasty stuff happening
with upgrades (changing distro version number, not securtiy
updates), and let's just not talk about proprietary systems.
There I'll grant you the fresh install right away.

With Debian, I still keep a separate /home partition, otherwise
I'm quite happy with apt. apt-get update; apt-get upgrade normally
gives me all I need.

Greetings, Eric