Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Hello Chinese student

Michael Talbot-Wilson (mtw@calypso.view.net.au)
Sat, 7 Nov 1998 09:10:18 +1030 (CST)


On 6 Nov 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> > >The most broken distribution in recent years is Slackware as it insists
> > >on shipping buggy, outdated packages with known security holes and doing
> > >nothing about it.
> > >
> >
> > Have you check slackware lately? While it was true that they were shipping
> > outdated packages and not fixing bugs for a few releases, the past few have
> > been much better.
> >
>
> Have they ever fixed the problem that upgrading at least used to be
> impossible (or nearly so)?

What does 'upgrading' mean, who does it and when do you need to do
it?

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