On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:53:04AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am curious when I read these kinds of messages. "I've got this really
> old thing, that I want to use with the latest whatever. But I don't want
> to upgrade my old thing, just screw on some sort of adapter so it will work
> with the new gadget." And I always wonder, why? A full system upgrade is
> usually pretty painless
[...]
Several reasons come to mind:
Could be, the old system as such works so well that folks are reluctant
to change it. And whether an upgrade is painful or not depends on many
things. For example, if you heavily customise your system, an upgrade
can be really painful, as more often than not you end up re-doing a lot
of stuff (e.g. because the syntax of some config files has changes or
suchlike). I've been there myself - I was running RHL 4.2 until a while
after RHL 5.2 came out for that very reason and I'm still on RHL 5.2 now
(another reason is that I don't trust x.0 releases very much... ;-) ).
Especially the upgrade from 4.x to [56].x can be a huge step, as there
is a whole bunch of library issues involved (libc5 -> glibc 2.x). That
can involve a good bit of work if custom applications are in the picture
(or worse: commercial ones where one doesn't have the source code...).
My EUR0.02,
Thomas
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