[olug] Best Practices Recommendation

Dave Hull dphull at insipid.com
Sat Apr 2 20:27:18 UTC 2005


Quoting Eric Lusk <wyrmzr72 at yahoo.com>:

> Personally, on the driver/firmware side of things, if
> it isn't having problems, don't bother.  I've seen
> enough driver updates cause problems on a machine that
> was working fine in the first place.

Ditto. I don't generally upgrade for the sake of upgrading. As mentioned
previously, if it's going to fix a known problem or plug a security hole, then
sure I'll apply them, preferably after having tried it on a test bench and
having made preparations for rolling back.

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Dave Hull
http://insipid.com



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