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

[Ralph De Witt]

On Monday 13 December 2004 03:51 pm, Christopher Rose wrote:
> 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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Christopher:
Both Simply Mepis and Mepis Pro can install and preserve the 
current /home/directory structure. How ever that said you will loose any 
customizing that the distrobution does to things like kde and your desktop 
and you might have problems due to differing versions of apps etc. I beleve 
that it would be better save files and reformat all partions and avoid any 
headaches etc.
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	Ralph.
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