And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days.- Mozilla, 12:10
I actually did this same upgrade from 2.2.16 a couple of weeks ago and it wasn't all that bad. You only had to update 4 or 5 rpms (which I grabbed from the current redhat version) and there weren't any odd dependency issues. 2.4.x is a nice upgrade especially if you're on a desktop - you'll appreciate the nice increase in speed.
For one, I'm using slackware. I got sick of RPM's and not really knowing what's going on underneath the hood of my computer. Isn't this the reason most of us are moving away from Windows in the first place? Slackware is about security and stability and most of the linux distributions of today can't claim this. The other thing that RedHat and the like boast about is the GUI config tools, but what's wrong with vi - it does the same thing with less bloat.
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And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until
the end of days.- Mozilla, 12:10
I actually did this same upgrade from 2.2.16 a couple of weeks ago and it wasn't all that bad. You only had to update 4 or 5 rpms (which I grabbed from the current redhat version) and there weren't any odd dependency issues. 2.4.x is a nice upgrade especially if you're on a desktop - you'll appreciate the nice increase in speed.
For one, I'm using slackware. I got sick of RPM's and not really knowing what's going on underneath the hood of my computer. Isn't this the reason most of us are moving away from Windows in the first place? Slackware is about security and stability and most of the linux distributions of today can't claim this. The other thing that RedHat and the like boast about is the GUI config tools, but what's wrong with vi - it does the same thing with less bloat.