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Re: Linux Athena questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Mon Oct 19 11:13:38 1998
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:00:17 -0400
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
To: amu@MIT.EDU
Cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU, svalente@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Aaron M. Ucko's message of 18 Oct 1998 22:37:35 -0400
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From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 18 Oct 1998 22:37:35 -0400
In practice, that's enough to make me stick to Red Hat...what I meant
was that if Athena had never been ported to Linux and I wanted to
produce a port now, I might well base it on Debian rather than Red
Hat.
I don't think there are so many differences that some massive number
of "unknowns" appear, especially since we would want to use the latest
RedHat anyway, which would possibly have just as many niggling
changes.
As for existing users, I doubt very much that we would be able to
provide an automated upgrade path, no matter what, which means that
anyone who wanted the New Thing would need to reinstall anyhow.
