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150410 Mick wrote: |
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>> On 10/04/2015 19:29, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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>>> My Gentoo system is kinda old ... not in the sense of not being updated |
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>> regularly, but in the sense of "used for a (too?) long time" |
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> I still have a box running the same Gentoo installation since 2005. |
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> I had another which died due to hardware failure |
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> with its original 2003 installation. |
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Same here : I've never re-installed Gentoo in the same machine, |
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but updated weekly on the everyday system & less often on the others ; |
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ANB2 (2003) still opens up, but won't talk to today's mice, |
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ANB3 (2007) has a graphics-card problem, so can't boot intelligibly, |
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ANB4 (2012 : this one) has no software problems, |
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Horace (EEE-PC 2009) was recently updated successfully after 2 yr . |
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Short advice : you're probably wasting your time (smile). |
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