Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!athene!pcg From: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Ultrix 4.1! Message-ID: Date: 10 Nov 90 18:04:25 GMT References: <3738@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <3739@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1939@shodha.enet.dec.com> Sender: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: odin In-reply-to: alan@shodha.enet.dec.com's message of 8 Nov 90 02:06:14 GMT On 8 Nov 90 02:06:14 GMT, alan@shodha.enet.dec.com ( Alan's Home for Wayward Notes File.) said, on the 4.1 release of RISC Ultrix: alan> I won't make any editorial comments about not making an alan> upgrade avialable alongside the full installation version In general I think that upgrades are far more risky (difficult to get right) than full reinstallations, an take about the same time, for any Unix version. If the system manager has been careful (a big if) a reinstallation followed by localization takes very little effort. If the system manager has been sloppy about localization than upgrades will not help a lot either. -- Piercarlo Grandi | ARPA: pcg%uk.ac.aber.cs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk