On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 02:17:53PM +0100, Peder Hedlund wrote: > Quoting lanas <lanas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 19:46:11 -0500, >> Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote : >> >>>> I'm using a >>>> rather 'old' Ardour version eg. 2.4.1. ? >> >>> i believe that the question was answered, but here's one for you: what >>> is the justification for continuing to use such an ancient version of >>> Ardour? there are probably 300-400 bugs fixed since then, some of them >>> very serious ones. >> >> I'm not too keen about updating Fedora 8. Everything works OK. When I >> want to record things it works. I have seen too numerous problems when >> doing other updates. > > I have to take sides with lanas on this. > If you have an old system that has been working well, you haven't > experienced any show stopping bugs and you don't have any security > issues you have to deal with; why go through the hassle of upgrading? > > Sure you'll get lots of new features and (hopefully) fewer bugs if you > upgrade but if what you have works well and is all you need there's > little gain. > > And a tip once you upgrade lanas: buy a new harddrive and do a fresh install. > You can even keep the old one and set up the bootloader to dual-boot > your old system if you feel like you need to experiment with the new > system first. > I absolutely hate upgrading and I do it as infrequently as possible. I am a Debian user through and through :-) I don't just value stability and reliability, I worship it. I demand it. I will not endanger it except under extreme circumstances or duress (usually once every few years, some series of circumstances conspires to force me to upgrade). When I get up on stage, I want to know that what worked yesterday, or last week, or last month, or last year, will work EXACTLY the same way now as it did then. I do not want to have to worry if some "rolling release" incompatibility broke something I'm going to need in the middle of a song while people are looking at me. So distros that update often or do rolling releases are not for me. Yes, I know about regression testing, but I don't want to have to waste time on regression testing, chasing that treadmill all the time. I do it once every few years as necessary, and that's plenty good for me thanks. This is one of the things I love most about Linux. In the commercial world, there was always some corporation or marketing scam forcing me to upgrade something and introduce instability. I hated that. Now, I can dig my heels in and stick with what works once I get it working. I understand there are people who actually enjoy chasing the latest version of stuff, or breaking their system so as to have fun fixing it, but I am decidedly not one of those people. A friend once described me as "technologically Amish". It fits. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
