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Old 02-20-2008, 06:14 AM
bgeer
 
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Default Re: Sob story on upgrading to new ver. of Slackware

"Al. C" <no.spam.acanton@take.out.adams-blake.no.spam.com> writes:

>phpMyAdmin
>Apache
>PHP
>Crossover Office (and install Word)
>Moneydance
>Open Office
>MySQL databases
>Home dir files (yeah, should have been on own partition)
>FireFox and bookmarks
>CUPS printers and settings
>Email and newsgroups accounts (Kmail/Knode)
>Email address book
>Jpilot data
>fstab entries for camera and hda
>Realplayer


Enlightened use of partitioning, automounting, nfs, & servers can go a
long way to reducing the problem.

& then there is the argument about adopting every release - is it
really necessary? By "really" I mean a functional necessity, not a "I
want the latest gee-whiz poobah" thing.

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