Why upgrade?

[cepaea_nemoralis]

Here is a question that I hope will provoke some discussion.

Suppose, like myself, you have a machine that works perfectly well with YDL 3.01. Why should I upgrade to 4 when it comes out for the general public?

-Adam

[StarKnight83]

The biggest reason id suggest upgrading to v4.0 from your current install is to take advantage of the benifits of the newest packages and kernel support.

[kamika]

major reason for my upgrades is safety and advanced functionallity.

why stick with old versions?
there might be some aspects in special cases,
but all those people work to make the software better.
and the work is done well. so I love to have
up2date applications.

[StarKnight83]

another good reason to upgrade is that the longer you dont the more out of date your lib packages become and a lot of programs out there require the libs they reference to be within the last couple of releases so after too long youll have problems finding some newer programs you can compile/install

[cepaea_nemoralis]

That is very informative, Starknight.

I agree with Kamika that it's good to have the new software, but then again, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I am hoping for improvements in wireless in YDL 4.

Does anyone know if there is a "changelog" for TDL. like they have for slackware, that tells what changes they are putting in?

I am hoping that there will be some web authoring tools in v. 4.

-Adam

[StarKnight83]

like what kind of web authuring tools-v3.0 had quanta and just about any text editor could do it. though it probably wouldnt be hard to impliment something that uses dillo as the renderer and nano or something simmilar as ur editor; probably just put a nice qt, or gtk interface around them