[Sussex] Does anyone know when/if the next issue of Linux Formatis due out?

[John D.]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:41:03 +0000, Steve Dobson <steve at dobson.org> wrote:

> Hi Mandrake People
>
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 03:07:55PM -0000, Mike Diack wrote:
>> Ah - now the thread is underway...
>> Re: Mandrake.
>> I have to confess I've always done fresh installs....
>> Bitter experience of Windows upgrades rather than fresh installs tended  
>> to
>> make me think that way...
>
> What's this re-install thing?
>
> Sorry, but I'm a Debian user.  I just "apt-get dist-upgrade".  In fact  
> I'm
> upgrading my old Indy box at the moment - going like a dream.  It hadn't
> been on for over 300 days, so most of the packages need upgrading.

It's one of those things some of us in the real world have to do from time  
to time (not me - use gentoo, you know it makes sense :D ). It's connected  
with a thing called "the upgrade cycle" - I'm not sure if you've heard of  
that Steve :-P

regards

John D.

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