Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??
Aurelio Turco <azt@bom.gov.au> writes:
> Brian Nelson wrote:
> >
> > DashepDS@netscape.net (David Shepherd) writes:
> > > When Woody is released as 3.0 and becomes Stable do I just so a
> > > "apt-get dist-upgrade"?
> >
> > Yup.
> >
> > > Or do I need to do some kind of reinstall?
> >
> > Nope.
> >
>
> Some will argue that it is good to do a complete reinstall
> occasionally, atleast on major distribution upgrades, as
> a kind of periodic spring cleaning (ensuring old and no
> longer needed files and directory structures etc get
> purged from the system).
> Distributions like Mandrake and Redhat seem to imply this.
> Debian seems to prefer otherwise?
No reinstalls are ever needed with debian. This is not a Microsoft
OS.
--
Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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