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tkjacobsen

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 29

Installation lifetime

Hello

I was wandering how long people have had an installation going without reinstalls -- only upgrades.

I have had mine since July 2007 -- 8 months

(That's a new record for me, Ubuntu never lived for more than 3 months)

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dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 1,007

Re: Installation lifetime

Less than a day.

But I just borked my system with a custom kernel and editing files I really shouldn't be editing

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miggols99

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Registered: 2007-06-10

Posts: 424

Re: Installation lifetime

I have had my installation since I got my laptop. So that's about 2 months...wonder how long I'll keep it up?

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Maki

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From: Skopje, Macedonia

Registered: 2007-10-16

Posts: 344

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Re: Installation lifetime

[2007-07-07 15:19] since i switched to a new pc

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Jarsto

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From: Groningen, The Netherlands

Registered: 2005-11-18

Posts: 35

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Re: Installation lifetime

I'm pretty certain I'm coming up on two years now, March 30th 2006 is on a number of files in /etc I'm pretty sure I've never touched. And while I'm not 100% sure any more, I think that's pretty close to when I bought this system. So the rolling release is certainly doing it's job for me.

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Jarsto

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-11-23

Posts: 450

Re: Installation lifetime

What's wrong with using the other thread Age of your linux installation??

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lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 3,682

Re: Installation lifetime

3.5 years.

phildg

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Registered: 2006-03-10

Posts: 146

Re: Installation lifetime

13/3/07 according to pacman.log

This installation has lived on two machines now, and it has been copied to a few others including a virtual hdd image for qemu. For each new computer I simply boot up the arch install cd and normally use tar and nc to copy the files over, I then chroot to the copied install on the new machine, rebuild the init images and install anything specific to the new machine normally wireless and x drivers.

This current install was installed on an AMD Athlon 64 and now exists on a Core 2 Duo.

Arch is great for lazy, a clone is a few orders of magnitude easier than an install from scratch

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Registered: 2006-11-26

Posts: 5,818

Re: Installation lifetime

Got this laptop since the start of september 2007, and my server runs Arch since april 2007. No reinstalls, although my desktop (which runs Arch since april 2007 too) suffered from the mysterious pacman upgrade problem that broke Xfce and that hit multiple users, just like my old laptop, and which forced me reinstall on both setups...

Last edited by B (2008-03-11 00:01:21)

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jordi

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Registered: 2006-12-16

Posts: 101

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Re: Installation lifetime

head /var/log/pacman.log
[10/27/06 19:45] synchronizing package lists

Wasn't there a similar thread just a few weeks ago?

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