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I bought a new desktop PC today because I could not run Android Studio without invoking the OOM killer. I will be moving the harddisk from the old to the new computer though... does not count as "reinstalling" I guess ;-)

I've my current at home since first release with version and architecture in package names. This was 7.1 or 8.0, I cannot recall it now. It survived couple main board/processor/hard disk switch - not counting lesser upgrades. History of my work current begins somewhere between 10.0 and 11.0. It also survived some hardware changes and also migration from 32->64bit.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien Bob (Post 5383205)

If you did that on Windows, the first thing you'd see when you start it up is "Windows has failed Activation". ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by dugan (Post 5383382)

If you did that on Windows, the first thing you'd see when you start it up is "Windows has failed Activation". ;)

If it starts up at all...

(or has this improved on newer versions?)

Quote:

Originally Posted by orbea (Post 5378075)

You can increase the size of most file systems without reinstalling! Even using gparted its pretty easy...

I considered doing that, but, as I think I also mentioned, I'm not using that machine in quite the same way any more. It had a lot of programs on it that had become redundant.

I figured a thorough spring cleaning was in order.

I've been running current (32-bit) on my main desktop for the better part of a year with no need to reinstall anything.

In fact, I had more trouble trying to run a 64-bit 14.1 install on the same box. Current is extremely solid, and I wouldn't hesitate to put it on any of my personal systems.

Happened to see this thread and wanted to take a look for myself.
I'm using mostly CentOS nowadays, but I have a trusty old router/firewall/network monitor box running 14.1 current:

Code:

00:00.0 Memory controller: NVIDIA Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)

00:01.0 ISA bridge: NVIDIA Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)

00:01.1 SMBus: NVIDIA Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)

00:02.0 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)

00:02.1 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)

00:06.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation CK804 IDE (rev a2)

00:08.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3)

00:09.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)

00:0c.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)

00:0d.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)

00:0e.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)

00:18.0 Host bridge: AMD [Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration

00:18.1 Host bridge: AMD [Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map

00:18.2 Host bridge: AMD [Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller

00:18.3 Host bridge: AMD [Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 11)

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 11)

80:01.0 PCI bridge: AMD [Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.] AMD-8132 PCI-X Bridge (rev 12)

80:01.1 PIC: AMD [Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.] AMD-8132 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 12)

80:02.0 PCI bridge: AMD [Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.] AMD-8132 PCI-X Bridge (rev 12)

80:02.1 PIC: AMD [Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.] AMD-8132 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 12)

I checked some directories and found:

Code:

drwxr-xr-x  10 root root 4.0K Sep 25  2006 mnt/

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Jun 10  2007 opt/

Wow time flies . . . . since '06/'07 on current.