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<div>Hi, Mike-- </div>
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<div>On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:06 -0700, "Michael Irons" <michael.irons@gmail.com> wrote:</div>
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system upgrades are occasionally unsafe (e.g. when there is a new<br>
kernel, changes to udev, or that kind of thing). <br>
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<div>That is exactly why.... </div>
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<div>I am currently going to school... CS and Math... and need a distro that I know won't flake out on me... </div>
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<div>That makes sense. I'm not going to say you're wrong to be cautious, but I wouldn't say that </div>
<div>Arch "flakes out," rather that, in keeping with its minimalist philosophy, it places more </div>
<div>responsibility on the user. As far as I can remember, every time I've had a serious problem</div>
<div>after an upgrade, it was because I had failed to read the relevant news items or to follow</div>
<div>some recommended procedure.</div>
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Matt Gushee
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