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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: DELL SVR4 - separate /usr and /var filesystem?
- Keywords: dell svr4 filesystem
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.144009.22418@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 14:40:09 GMT
- References: <st.714984180@styx> <rvdp.715192197@yam> <1992Sep01.185250.11477@digibd.com> <1992Sep02.090528.27950@digibd.com> <1992Sep4.002923.28095@unixland.natick.ma.us>
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- Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
- Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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- In article <1992Sep4.002923.28095@unixland.natick.ma.us>, bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser) writes:
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- | However, as anyone who is even moderately active in the USENET
- | world knows, things change pretty quickly ... if you want to run
- | the "latest and greatest", you're going to have to go out and
- | scrounge for the latest sources anyway, even though you've already
- | paid for them (hidden cost) when you bougt Dell!
-
- Unless you have a personal hobby of updating software, and many people
- on the net have just that hobby, there's no need to keep current of
- every bit of software on your system.
-
- My rule of thumb is that I run the old version until I want a new
- feature, or I find a bug I can't live with, or a new version of
- something else breaks peripheral stuff. Then go to the latest working
- version and find a new lock-in point.
-
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
-