Originally posted by Jonathan
What you won't want to do is to try installing new stuff on an old distribution. You'll end up fussing for days to get the right libraries (read "OS updates") to run a newer version of the application, and when you do the OS update, the new libraries might not allow a previously installed application to run. The moral of the story is to install stuff that comes on the 7.2 disk set and forever live with whatever it has.
And that ain't so bad. Once again, new applications are getting more and more bloated and crashy. I don't remember KDE applications ever crashing when I was using 7.2. But I am now in the practice of backing up every five minutes. It is that same as the old days when a TRS-80 would crash from the static electricity generated by typing on a keyboard. But at least you could put a piece of Bounce - the clothes dryer stuff - inside. These days on Linux (or at least on KDE), an application will just disappear from the screen in the middle of a sentence. Poof!
Originally posted by Jonathan
Originally posted by Jonathan
Originally posted by Jonathan
But once again, take everything that it offers because installing newer apps later can be a Great Annoyance. Note that you can add things later from the same distribution disk, but with 20 gigs, you might as well just do it all now.
Originally posted by Jonathan
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