On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 16:05 -0700, Len Ovens wrote: > So, fresh installs are still the best Hi Len :) I like it to make fresh installs from time to time, it's like a spring cleaning. I always made new installs of Ubuntu, never updated from one release to the next and I stay with an Ubuntu release for a while, instead of installing always the latest release. For Ubuntu I build my own kernels. I prefer Arch Linux, the rolling release model usually does work perfectly good. I just hold Ardour and Virtualbox packages, but there are no issues until now, at least not with Virtualbox, I didn't use Ardour for a long time, so I'm not sure if it's still ok. Because there are often kernel updates, I install new kernel-rts, but keep old packages for the kernel-rt, until now I didn't need to downgrade a kernel-rt for my current Arch install. So IMO there's no need for a fresh install, if you run a rolling release. I agree regarding to the disk space. Multi-boots and backups aren't issues. FWIW my old drives have one primary partition, but for new drives I switched to 3 primary partitions. Classic MBR, no LVM etc., the only exception is an unused FreeBSD. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
