On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Arnold Krille <arnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > While I do encounter the odd failure in updates every now and then, the number > of catastrophic failures (possibly resulting in data-loss) has been zero with > SuSE, Gentoo and ubuntu (*). The hours spent getting watching one system to > upgrade while working with another where much better used then the hours spent > setting up a new system with all the small quirks and settings to re-create my > needed working environment. I always keep my /home directory on its own partition, so even changing to a different flavor of Linux doesn't mess up my local settings. I've upgraded my current studio machine several times, and with different distros (Fedora, Debian, Gentoo and currently using UbuntuStudio) but have never lost any data (and I keep ALL audio projects on a completely separate drive, and of course regular backups are made). -- Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.electricminstrel.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "In the rhythm of music a secret is hidden; If I were to divulge it, it would overturn the world." -- Jelaleddin Rumi _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
