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On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:46:42PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: > The major distros have pretty well gotten it right according their > models. But, the one thing I would like to see is a continuous upgrade > (well Gentoo does this to some extent). What I mean is that you start > with Distro Version a. Along the way your system is upgraded > continuously such that when Version b. is officially released, you > already have it. rom a pure support point of view it would be a > nightmare. In Debian, you can do this by choosing the Testing or Unstable versions instead of the Stable version. Near the end of a release cycle, it's reasonable to run a desktop on Testing. Otherwise... it's a support nightmare. The answer to any problem is "file a bug, and hope that it gets fixed soon". -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't defend freedom by getting rid of it.
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