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Re: gEDA-user: gschem with cairo rendering
On Mon, 05 May 2008 20:40:41 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> The notion of not upgrading a computer is common among windows users,
>> but but not so among the linux crowd.
>
> Explain that to my RHL 9 box downstairs, my FC6 desktop, or my FC4
> laptop. And I work for Red Hat!
Dunno about Fedora. But upgrades of my Debian based backup-box and fax
server (both 250 MHz Pentium) and my laptop (900 MHz Thinkpad) from woody
to etch were pretty painless. It took them a few hours to suck the
necessary packages. But no admin intervention was necessary. These things
have improved a lot with Debian since the days of CD juggling. Seems like
the notorious looong delay after feature freeze of Debian/testing is for
a reason.
>> Upgrades are cheap
>
> Ha! It takes a day of my valuable time to upgrade any of my machines,
> as they're each customized and migrating the customizations is time
> consuming. Not cheap.
Compared to what an update of a comparable win machine would claim in
terms of time and license fees, this is cheap! ;-)
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