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>It gets easier and easier, but unfortunitly things change pretty quick so
>at times it can be a pain to stay on top of it all, well if you want
>bleeding edge.
>
Sounds just like Windows :)
Updating is generally easier under windows though, esp. if you've built of a
lot of your linux setup from source. If you can do everything through rpms
then its not bad, but trying to mix the two can get weird. In another post I
mentioned my favorite linux box I had was based off of Redhat 5.2, I
manually upgraded to the 2.2 kernel along with all the needed libs, upgraded
X, tried several window managers, compiled pretty much everything. At that
point I was responsible for all updates, and grabbing new rpms for things I
recompiled myself either wasn't really an option or I just didn't know how
to make it all work. Later I installed Redhat 6 or 6.1 at work since I was
very familar with Redhat by then, and low and behold inet was changed to
xinet and my knowledge of configuring tcp services went back to almost zero
where before it was a 2 second job. Its more of those changes I am talking
about, xinet was probably just a better solution, I get that, but when
pieces like that get swapped out on you and its configuration is different
its hard to keep up. And the rate of change can be pretty quick sometimes,
its a love/hate thing, sometimes I just don't want to have to deal with it
and want the point and click. Windows on the other hand, so many things have
just stayed the same or close enough that the learning curve just isn't
there once you've been doing it awhile.
DD
