Linux drove me to get a Mac

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

Jamon Camisso wrote:
> dpkg --get-selections and dpkg --set-selections will let you do a fresh
> install and then grab whatever the previous system (where you did
> get-selections) had marked as installed.

That does nothing for configuration management and dumping the values
for selections that were made during install using
"debconf-get-selections" dpkg is all but useless since many of the
parameters are irrelevant in preseeding. I have come to really dislike
preseeding because of its many exceptions, complexity, and poor
documentation.

> And aptitude dist-upgrade
> between releases is absolutely a joy to work with, on a desktop, laptop,
> server etc. I haven't run into a problem yet using aptitude and etch
> when it was still the testing release.

I just upgraded Kubuntu 7.10 on this system to 8.04. It went relatively
smoothly except for the fact that the fonts are now ugly.
-- 
Regards,

Clifford Ilkay
Dinamis
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Toronto, ON
Canada  M4N 3P6

<http://dinamis.com>
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