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From: Brandon Mintern <bmintern@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 19:14:41
Message-Id: 4c0fccce0805011213s24d5605wf90e56f1bf3fad40@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008 by reader@newsguy.com
1 On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:06 PM, <reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
2 > "Brandon Mintern" <bmintern@×××××.com> writes:
3 >
4 > > Call me old school, but that method never takes me more than a few
5 > > minutes to do. I am also someone in the vim camp. It fires up quickly
6 >
7 > Unless you are updating a vmappliance built on old (even for 2006)
8 > 2006 pkgs to current 2008 pkgs.
9 >
10 > I know this is a monster thread but making that big a jump is what is
11 > being discussed.
12
13 I can certainly understand and sympathize with that. My first
14 internship and first real exposure to Unix involved updating to a new
15 FreeBSD installation from one that had not been updated in several
16 years. I was mostly responding to Neil Bothwick's implication (even if
17 it was sarcastic) that using vim indicates bad things.
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>