[NTLUG:Discuss] Upgrade breaks things

[David Stanaway]

On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 13:17, brian at pongonova.net wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:10:45AM -0500, Bobby Wrenn wrote:
> > I thought upgrades were only supposed to break things with that other OS.
> 
> Unfortunately, this is one myth that never seems to die.  With the
> proliferation of "new" libraries with "new" interfaces (whatever
> happened to interfaces remaining the same, and improving the
> implementation?), along with n different file directory schemes, Linux
> has fast become the same upgrade hell many of us left M$ for.  I have
> an old SuSE distro I've painstakingly updated to roughly the "state of
> the art" as of middle of last year.  Guess what?  I can compile
> roughly 75% of the software I download...the other 25% fails to
> compile due to "unsupported libraries," "obsolete libraries," or any
> of a number of different excuses.  I don't even bother with binary
> distributions -- many are compiled against cutting-edge share libs, so
> those of use without the latest RH distro are simply SOL.
> 
> Backwards compatibility is quickly becoming an endangered species in
> the O/S world.  Where do we turn to next?


Have you tried Debian?

If you keep your system up-todate with thhe testing distribution, you
have a pretty good cutting edge distribution.

The current testing version looks like it is going to be released as a
stable version on May 1st, so when that comes out. It would be a good
opportunity to get into a fresh stable debian installation (As The
current stable version is quite stale IMHO).

--
David Stanaway
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