[Newlug] Who is the President

[John Byrne]

Good suggestions, as I hadn't considered the ease with which one can 
upgrade Debian, but I also remember some horrible times I had with 
Debian when the upgrade system didn't work just right because of 
dependency issues.  Honestly though, I've already decided on SuSE and 
just thought a good old distribution war would bring life to the list 
(which is exactly what it did.)  Sorry for being manipulative :).  Does 
anyone have any real questions?

  - J. B.

On Jan 4, 2004, at 6:57 PM, Eric Cunningham wrote:

> For a corporate server room, development workstation or anything too
> remote to fix, I would agree with you.  Don't automate a full upgrade.
> For what I pictured as a small PC in your parents closet running with
> minimal services, this wouldn't be a problem.  We blindly upgrade 
> Windows
> machines all the time and I would trust the debian stable team over
> Microsoft any day.  My parents had a smtp/firewall running unattended 
> for
> 4 years before I finally replaced it with a wireless access point.
>
> If this is a desktop however, it's an entirely different argument and I
> wouldn't recommend debian.
>
> -eric
>
>
>> the friendly gentoo dev chimes in with `emerge rsync`
>>
>> Having a machine automatically upgrade every package that has an 
>> upgrade
>> available is never a good idea.
>>
>> Don.
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:37:18PM -0600, Eric Cunningham wrote:
>>> Debian is where package upgrades shine.  It doesn't get much easier
>>> then:
>>>
>>> apt-get update
>>> apt-get upgrade
>>>
>>> And it can be automated so your mom never has to touch it.
>>>
>>> -eric
>>
>> --
>> "The key to foreign policy is to rely on reliance."
>>
>> George W. Bush
>> November 1, 2000
>> Quoted from the Washington Post.
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