Re: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements

Sat, 29/02/2008 at 10:08 +0100, *** Hoogendijk writes:

No one is forcing you to upgrade.
Head in the sand reaction.
Nope.

I think the guy is right.
The upgrade proces and constant rebuilding of ports made me switch in
the end after years of using freeBSD. My computer is fast, but I want
to use it for someting useful iso compiling and compiling and..
You were not forced to.

All of your installed software will work fine if you install 6.x
compatibility libraries unless a piece of software is inherently
system-dependant.

Generally speaking, OpenOffice.org will work fine, and lm_sensors
MIGHT, but it is not guaranteed to.

As of any major version upgrade of FreeBSD. :)
--
Yours
Andrew Kolchoogin.


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