Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 71.131.206.162]
on October 11, 2007 08:54 PM
This is why you never upgrade - always do a clean install. In the end it's quicker and cleaner. Upgrading's just too much hassle and it's impossible for the designers to get an upgrade right because people change their systems and something is going to fall through the cracks. Systems are simply too complex a beast to upgrade correctly in all cases. If it works for you, fine - but don't count on it. I upgraded Mandriva 2006 to 2007 last year and that's when I learned never to do that.
And definitely NEVER upgrade until at least the first set of major bug patches are released. Wait a couple months. Only install new releases on new machines or use a clean install.
It also irritates me that most distros STILL do not properly support ADSL directly on installation even though a huge percentage of the US population has it. You shouldn't need a DHCP or static IP setup on installation - the distro should just let you configure the NIC and run the DSL setup just like after installation. It's not rocket science. I don't know why these decisions which are utterly obvious to any end user never enter the heads of the maintainers.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 71.131.206.162] on October 11, 2007 08:54 PMAnd definitely NEVER upgrade until at least the first set of major bug patches are released. Wait a couple months. Only install new releases on new machines or use a clean install.
It also irritates me that most distros STILL do not properly support ADSL directly on installation even though a huge percentage of the US population has it. You shouldn't need a DHCP or static IP setup on installation - the distro should just let you configure the NIC and run the DSL setup just like after installation. It's not rocket science. I don't know why these decisions which are utterly obvious to any end user never enter the heads of the maintainers.
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