On 15 Feb 2007, at 16:47, Paul Klapperich wrote: > On 2/15/07, Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer at nokia.com> wrote: > > My only concern would be getting into a Windows XP-like situation > > where you reinstall with XP SP1 becaude that's what came with your > > system and then have to install SP2 and 100+ hotfixes to get back to > > where you were. > > I have zero experience with Windows, so I don't know how painful it is > what you describe. > > That, in particular, would be solved by having a somewhat recent > flash image like you mentioned earlier. What he's describing would > be akin to having to install Ubuntu Dapper and then having to patch > your way up to Feisty Fawn, or similar. Generally not a danger, but > it certainly takes a long time. > With the added joys of having to authenticate your software, download a new copy of dpkg/apt-get, reboot three times, re-authenticate your licence, phone Microsoft when you fail authentication, reboot and wait an hour while all the patches install. Andy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20070215/cdc461a3/attachment.htm
