29 Aug
2010
29 Aug
'10
5:57 p.m.
On Aug 27, 2010, at 4:52 PM, John Millikin wrote:
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 20:51, I wrote:
Maybe Linux is different. One thing is NOT different, and that is Linux upgrades *DO* reliably break programs that use dynamic linking.
Upgrading Linux should never, ever cause applications to stop working unless they were designed incorrectly in the first place.
"Linux" in this context means the system as perceived by users, a "distribution", not just a kernel.
Desktop-oriented distributions, such as Ubuntu or Fedora, are not suitable for long-term (> 6 years or so) installations.
Fedora is one of the Linux distributions I was talking about.