[Lula] DNS woes ... (lost domain)

[Jack Denman]

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 11:28 -0700, Todd Lyons wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 09:11:21PM -0700, Gerardo Soto-Campos wrote:
> 
> >Hi Todd:
> >
> >I remember your name because you gave a talk on Mandrake Linux (a
> >while back). I'd like to ask you what are my options now that
> >Mandrake seems to be defunct?... I still have two linux boxes with
> >mandrake 10.0, but I see no internet support on it anymore,
> 
> Mandrake merged with Connectiva and is now Connectiva.  Upgrades are
> the same procedure.  Personally, I build systems with a seperate /home
> partition.  When a new version of the distro comes out, I reinstall,
> formatting / and preserving /home.  Servers are a bit different story,
> harder to upgrade in place.  If you need newer versions of programs, get
> the newer src.rpm and rebuild it on that older machine.  Can get kind of
> hairy and difficult the older the distro becomes, but it's a valid way
> of keeping apps current (and not able to be exploited).

I suppose that will work but there is a major drawback. One of the aims
of a complete distribution is the system integration efforts that will
not exist by just adding the newer src.rpm.

I suppose that it's not possible to eliminate risk from human experience
and new distributions just might have some system integration problems,
but not to the extent of one's own patches. As long as you understand
the risks, I suppose I might follow the above advice too, but with a
Plan B; just in case ....
-- 
Jack Denman <cashmere at adelphia.net>

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