I tend to agree with this philosophy.  I upgraded my notebook from RH 7.1 to 
7.3, and it was pretty hosed.  I wiped the partition and did it as a new 
install (I'd ghosted the original) and it worked much better.

Vaughn Treude
Nakota Software, Inc.

On Monday 11 November 2002 17:03, you wrote:
> I've never done an "upgrade" of a running Linux system, and have found that
> even with Windows its better to start from scratch than to put "new wine in
> the old skin," though MS seems to do a passable job of it provided there is
> no serious pathology in the existing system. It would seem RH can't afford
> quite as extensive a validation process before new releases, and
> understandably so. Still, if the price of a shrink-wrapped Linux
> distribution is similar to that of Windows, it is reasonable to expect a
> similar level of quality control. Just because they collect every piece of
> GPL software they can find and throw it into the box doesn't excuse sloppy
> work. I probably will keep the 8.0 bundle and install it when I have time
> to start from disk partition, but I'm not looking forward to it like I was.
>
> So... what will historians say about the Open-Source movement, that it was
> the dawn of a new age of enlightened self-interest, or that it was the 90's
> techno-geek version of the hippie "free-store" idea from the 60's? Peace,
> dude.
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