[CS-FSLUG] When do you update your distribution?

[Christopher Rose]

Can any of them install over an existing ext3 partition and preserve the /home/tofferer directory? I confessed that I can easily burn my personal files to CD, but if I don't have to, that would be neat.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Parris" <gnumathetes at gmail.com>
To: fmiller at lightlink.com, "A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group." <Christiansource at ofb.biz>
Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] When do you update your distribution?
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:46:08 -0500

> 
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:19:24 -0500, Fred A. Miller
> <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> > On Mon December 13 2004 12:48 pm, Christopher Rose wrote:
> > > Ok, what would everyone recommend? I am saddened by the direction that Red
> > > Hat is going, that is to say they seem to have forgotten low-end users like
> > > myself. I welcome any advice. Migrating my personal files is easy enough, I
> > > can simply burn my files to a CD and reload them. However, like I said,
> > > what does everyone recommend (oh, I do not care for OpenOffice. I am happy
> > > enough using AbiWord and Gnumeric)
> >
> > I have to recommend SUSE, if for not other reason (and there are 
> > MANY others),
> > in that hardware support is better than others.
> >
> > Fred
> >
> 
> I'll play the neutral-minded guy, and suggest that, if not SUSE, then
> Xandros (with the first-ever VPN wizard, if you need that), and a
> Windows-ish KDE environment.  It's also easy to install.  After that,
> it sounds like Mepis, Ubuntu, Knoppix, & Morphix.
> 
> 
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