Things to Consider Before Choosing a make world Upgrade
The risks of building your system from scratch are not insignificant. On a high-profile production server, you may deem them too great for make world to be a viable upgrade method. It’s a simple matter to wait for each full release on CD, and you may prefer to go that route instead—either doing a binary upgrade through Sysinstall, or (as many administrators do today) backing up the data, performing a fresh install complete with a reformat of the hard disks, and reinstalling the data. To make an informed decision, though, you need to fully understand the risks involved in building a system from interim sources.
First, and most obviously, make world involves at least one reboot, and it takes ...
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