hi im just intrested to see haw often they reload there OS and why?

i usually end off reinstalling about once a month just trying a new distro out and usually end off putting slackware back on

how often do you re load your OS?

once a month
every 6 month
once a year
hardly ever
whats an OS, dont you mean horse! LOL

hi im just intrested to see haw often they reload there OS and why?

i usually end off reinstalling about once a month just trying a new distro out and usually end off putting slackware back on

how often do you re load your OS?

once a month
every 6 month
once a year
hardly ever
whats an OS, dont you mean horse! LOL

I reinstall several times before I "set" a system up to get all the configs right. But after that, I rarely touch it. Too delicate.

the last choise was tempting, but i chose "hardly ever" lol

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When I was using Windows I didn't really have a choice and reinstalled like every month or so. Usually switching between WinXP en Win2k. Win2k mostly lasted longer but would also die a horrible death after a while. Only after I gave my father and kid sisters a limited user account I could extend it to once a year or so. Now I run slackware and I never reinstall.

I'm lucky to have a computer I can experiment with, so in the past few years I've tried various systems ranging from easy (SuSE) to a bit harder (gentoo). Maybe next year I try a *BSD, maybe freeBSD. Or maybe I'll try LFS, once I learn shell scripting. Looks difficult, but very interesting...slackware is what I'm using mostly at the moment, and I really, really like it.

JJ

Usually when theres mostly new hardware.. no need to reinstall ever, unless its definitely needed.

I update my desktop OS everytime there is a new release. As for my servers, hardly ever, I just install security updates.

Just to elaborate on that. When I installed a new motherboard on my system because the old one went kaput, I had to reboot windows 30 times to re-configure all the devices. Almost made me want to reinstall Windows except that I had about a lot of programs installed and didn't want to reinstall each one of them.

With Linux it was just one reboot and kudzu re-detected and re-configured everything in one go!

i update the kernel every month or 2, whenever there is a new big release and i feel like it, i have a cronjob to update everything (but not kernel.. tho it might install a new tree, the old one still remains) in gentoo about once a week

as for complete reinstalls, this is my first complete reinstall of gentoo (first one was good for learning, was my fir time on a big distribution ... to used to LFS and the likes)

I usually use windows, I don't install it much now ( about a month since last install) but there was a time when I had a real craza for re-instlling the OS.

Whenever there was a slight problem I would have gone for format C:

Installed it so many times that I even remember the keys of both Win98 and Xp by heart

all my OS's egt wiped once a year to get rid of all the accumulated crap and what not that I get when I install programs. maybe twice a year....windows gets it more often because of all the games I play I tend to accumulate a lot of installs (but nothing windows related so :-P) Linux used to be far less often but that was cause Gentoo took to frigging long to install now that I have moved onto slackware I do it more often. Mainly because I have a harder time keepign track of what i install.

hardly ever for both windows and linux, I only reinstall when I significant amount of hardware is changed for example motherboard, CPU, etc. With windows I used to reintall every couple of months but now I have become more security conscious and look after my computers much more so there isn't the same need. I also reinstall linux I fancy changing distro, though at the minute I'm very happy with slackware and may get around to reinstalling the server and move from RH9 to Slack but that means loads of downtime which is putting me off.

I dual boot debian and winme. I don't reinstall debian But windows every few months when I don't feel like cleaning it at all. Though since I use linux for nearly all my stuff the problem with windows is a bit less.