Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 01:20:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Joel Sutton <jsutton@bbcon.com.au> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux convert... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910060118260.8080-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910061503120.3043-100000@stargate.home>
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On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Joel Sutton wrote: > On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, J McKitrick wrote: > > > Will it be difficult to upgrade to 4.0? I just got 3.2, and i am leery of > > updating to 3.3 and breaking my system (even though it has features i > > could use) since i've seen some problems on the questions list. Won't 4.0 > > be even more likely to do that? > > > Do any of the Linux distributions make it really easy to upgrade? > > translated... > > Can FreeBSD's upgradability be used as a selling point? > Ah, you aren't familiar with the FreeBSD much hyped (or maybe not hyped enough... hrm) "make world" facility. http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html it makes for upgrades of entire machines a breeze. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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