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Al. C wrote:

> bgeer wrote:
>
>>
>> Enlightened use of partitioning, automounting, nfs, & servers can go a
>> long way to reducing the problem.
>>
>
> True, but that has a complexity all its own and I wonder if the trade-off
> of this vs. an upgrade every 1.5 to 2 years is worth it.

bgeer makes it sound technical, it's not (I'm not sure why he listed nfs and
automounting, that's overkill for the average user's needs). It's just a
matter of keeping your /home dir on a separate partition and keeping a copy
of /etc. That'd cover ~80% of what you listed (kmail settings, fstab, etc).

The rest is more a case of you should know enough to deal with it. Things
like mysql (or Firebird, or PostgreSQL, or ...) databases, you should know
how to backup and restore them anyway, it should be part of your routine
(it's generally a good idea to restore your DBs from backups now and again
to make sure they're all working, you don't want to find your backup system
is a useless as the HD that just died with the live system on it).

Installing apps that aren't standard with slack tends to be a good time to
get up to date with their latest version (much like upgrading slack its
self), so that's no big problem either.

> Still, I really would like to run 10.1. But I don't know why :-)

Your hands shaking as you type eh? Need some Slackerette(tm) patches? ;-)

Blumf

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