by ****POST BY A LINO_IDIOT*******************************************
I normally take a stock Redhat install and munge it all out of
proportion. I've taken 8.0 and now have several differrent things from
Rawhide, SuSE and Mandrake intermingled, and in some case, replacing
important aspects. I also have tarballs from all over the place. I've
managed to force it all together into a nice, stable, secure machine.
Don't ask how because I don't know. But I've done this a number of
times now.
I just download what I want and try to install/upgrade. When that
doesn't work, I get the things I'm told need to be changed. I keep
doing this until it all gives up and does what I told it to do. As a
final test, I reboot to see if anything still works. I'm usually
pleasantly surprised!
I'd never dream of doing this on a machine that was important. But this
is my own desktop machine, and I can afford to destroy it if it comes
to that. I've done enough rescuing of things that I can get it back to
a usable state pretty quickly if I need to. Still, I've only really
messed things up badly a couple of times. The worst that usually
happens is something stops working. For instance, my gnome-panel does
nothing but crash right now. That's fine since I don't use gnome for
other than a few apps and to supply libraries that some other things
want.
I may just try upgrading this to the latest beta tonight, just to see
if it still works afterward.
--
Windows: Pay more, expect less.
*********END POST BY LINO_IDIOT**************************************
Can you believe this shit?
It takes 5 different Linux distributions to satisfy the common Lino_DORK....
Anna says, Linux is a waste of time,.
This idiot proves it beyond the shadow of a doubt.
Anna Banger.