11-20-2018, 10:48 PM
[member=3747]Yoru3[/member]
Updating and upgrading WITHIN a series is automated in LL maybe better than any distribution out there. From one series to a next series i/e 3.x to 4.x is something highly unlikely to ever happen for a multiplicity of reasons, like: repository depth, different base packaging, no net install provisions, evolving hardware, deprecating hardware, and user skill. Fundamentally such a thing is outside the declared mission statement of LL, given the complicated process it actually is. It would also be expensive in every sense of the word, expensive in rack space, expensive in man hours, expensive in fiat, and probably exponentially expensive in user dissatisfaction, given LL's positioning itself as a gateway distro. It would also be of no particular use to anyone other than a hobbyist. Time is better spent updating packages to correctly reflect changes in a new series. Computing changes every second of the day. Nothing ever stays the same for long, and the pace of development is accelerating not decelerating... EXCEPT... that MS is still the greatest form of legalized extortion since income tax.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help...fact-sheet
Windows 7 real extended support has not been free for quite a while, nor has the upgrade to Windows 10. W 7's secure functionality is severely deprecated for the modern Web without an alternative browser like Firefox. Security updates for IE in Windows 7 no longer upgrade the browser so they are useless as they don't apply correctly to any function that even exists in the base software. They're there, but just hanging in "space" often just doing nothing. MS extended support is a hoax unless you pay for it, just like it was for XP at the end. Security updates that were quite simply benign non-interactive lines of code to appease a few US congressmen and consumer advocates.
TC
Updating and upgrading WITHIN a series is automated in LL maybe better than any distribution out there. From one series to a next series i/e 3.x to 4.x is something highly unlikely to ever happen for a multiplicity of reasons, like: repository depth, different base packaging, no net install provisions, evolving hardware, deprecating hardware, and user skill. Fundamentally such a thing is outside the declared mission statement of LL, given the complicated process it actually is. It would also be expensive in every sense of the word, expensive in rack space, expensive in man hours, expensive in fiat, and probably exponentially expensive in user dissatisfaction, given LL's positioning itself as a gateway distro. It would also be of no particular use to anyone other than a hobbyist. Time is better spent updating packages to correctly reflect changes in a new series. Computing changes every second of the day. Nothing ever stays the same for long, and the pace of development is accelerating not decelerating... EXCEPT... that MS is still the greatest form of legalized extortion since income tax.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help...fact-sheet
Windows 7 real extended support has not been free for quite a while, nor has the upgrade to Windows 10. W 7's secure functionality is severely deprecated for the modern Web without an alternative browser like Firefox. Security updates for IE in Windows 7 no longer upgrade the browser so they are useless as they don't apply correctly to any function that even exists in the base software. They're there, but just hanging in "space" often just doing nothing. MS extended support is a hoax unless you pay for it, just like it was for XP at the end. Security updates that were quite simply benign non-interactive lines of code to appease a few US congressmen and consumer advocates.
TC
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