Diederick de Vries wrote:
Me, as an average user, I dread every single release. It involves work because things apparently needed to change. They are effectively an interruption of what is otherwise a very nice system.
If you have crux installed and keep tracking the updates regularly it should be a mild transition. And the longer you postpone upgrades the harder it will be to fix changes. So regular upgrades keep the admin task doable. And I dread for the servers which were installed long ago and never updated, with the admin attitude of `don't fix it if it ain't broken,' which is a sure recipe for trouble.
I would hope that everything that changes is done as much as possible using the normal and elegant Crux mechanisms (prt-get update) and that new releases are only done when absolutely necessary, even though they may look nice on osnews and distrowatch.
If install crux and then have to rebuild every package that's installed you'll also not be happy. regular releases are better for installers so they are quite up to date to start with. And for people who keep tracking updates they are not necessary, all they have to do is change the release tag and rebuild some ports and run rejmerge. # Han -- http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/crux/