<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Monty J. Harder</b> <<a href="mailto:mjharder@gmail.com">mjharder@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Billy Crook</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:billycrook@gmail.com" target="_blank">billycrook@gmail.com
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I think he was referring to the latest release, which they opened the gates for torrent downloads at approximately 9:05AM this morning.
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<div>And I have consistently avoided pushing the latest version of ANYTHING to a newbie. I tell people to use Ubuntu 7.04 and let seven months of patches update rather than using 7.10 and have trouble. Only after a release has been out a few months do I want to put it in the hands of someone who might let a bad first experience with Linux become their last as well.
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<div>We've seen specific horror stories that bear out the wisdom of the "wait to upgrade" philosophy. Let those eager beavers gamma-test the software. You can even be one of them, if you have a "non mission critical" box to play with, or do like Jim Herrmann last night and make a separate partition to hold the new OS version (the old one's there as a fallback, and you can diff config files and figure out what you changed last time....)
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<div>I think that's excellent advice. I recently talked my girlfriend into installing Linux, so we installed 7.10 within a week or so of the final release... I was eager to see it... and there have definitely been quirks. Nothing too serious, but I wouldn't have known how to fix them without using the command line. She's not quite there yet.
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