On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Tim Nelson <tnelson at rockbochs.com> wrote: > Greetings CentOS Team- > > Since the list tends to be filled with "things don't work" and "why did you > do it this way" and "complaint X", I thought I'd make a small deviation... > > I have a production system running on a Dell Poweredge 2650 server. I > simply ran 'yum update' and rebooted with no problems. Everything continues > to work as rock solid as before. > > So, I just wanted to say 'Thank You' to all those who put in such hard work > into the CentOS project. The time between releases was not a problem here. > If it was, I guess I'd just ask for a refund. :-) > > --Tim > Had I yum updated on my desktop computer I believe everything would have been fine (as it was on my laptop). But I tried the Update path from the DVD first, without doing any preparation or reading and, though it booted fine, a lot of my programs failed -- even Firefox until I ran yum update. Fortunately I had backed everything up -- and I had a couple issues that made a clean install a good idea anyhow. The clean install went flawlessly. Only thing... I tried to like the new wallpaper, but eventually Googled and found the old version. I just like the plain CentOS 5 wallpaper better. (Yeah, I'm bland.) Thanks to everyone. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090402/bde873a1/attachment-0005.html>