On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 08:45:19PM -0400, David Meyer wrote:
> Let me second that one! This is one Windows haters can enjoy. A customer
> asked me to do an upgrade from Windows 98 to Windows XP Professional. Not a
> clean rebuild, but an upgrade. Within three weeks the system went into a
> crash mode (would not stay up and running more than 3 minutes) and caused
> LOTS of lost man hours while we recovered what we could, and then rebuilt
> him from scratch. Tried to convince him Linux was the way to go, but the
> home office said no. Aw well...it made for a good laugh anyway!
>
When I worked for a Microsoft shop (Argh!) we _never_ upgraded. Always
reinstalled. We knew better.
Debian has the best upgrade path I know of; cleanest, smoothest, most
seamless. However, so far their releases are excessively tardy. You can
run the "testing" version to get more realtime updates, but that's a
matter of taste.
Paul
> Dave
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Wyatt" <awyatt@fewt.com>
> To: <slug@nks.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 8:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] SuSE 7.3pro to 8.1pro upgrade bombs
>
>
> > > p.s. new install in Not an option - please do not even suggest it.
> >
> > Might I suggest a new install? :-P haha
> >
> > Seriously though, I have never trusted OS upgrades on any platform.
> > Sounds like there's something significant holding you back. Can you tar
> > it off somewhere, then untar it back after a new install's complete? I
> > don't believe I've ever come across a scenario where I couldn't do a new
> > install. I'm genuinely curious now. ;-)
> >
> > -Andrew
> >
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