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I’m a little confused. The article seems to walk through reinstalling Mac OS 9.1, or performing an erase and install. And this sounds like upgrading as opposed
by mproud 4y ago
I’m a little confused. The article seems to walk through reinstalling Mac OS 9.1, or performing an erase and install. And this sounds like upgrading as opposed to updating.
Upgrading is going from one major version to the next. There is a higher risk of failure when doing so.
Updating is increasing the minor version, including bug fixes and small patches.
I am sure I was one of those people who upgraded their machine from 9.0.3 or 9.0.4 to 9.1, and I do not remember batting an eye doing so. By this time, updates were readily available via the Internet — this should have been a fairly straightforward process, without the need for CDs or multiple hard drives.
- 2h 4y ago> Upgrading is going from one major version to the next. > Updating is increasing the minor version, including bug fixes and small patches. I dont agree with this at all. You could swap the two words and still have a cogent paragraph. what reference do you have for these terms?
- qup 4y agoSomebody let the apt maintainers know they've got it wrong
- 2h 4y agoRight because the English language is maintained by the apt maintainers
- qup 4y agoI was agreeing with your sentiment. Upgrade doesn't mean what the guy thinks it should, per apt, one of the most widely-used package managers on the planet. That said, I do disagree with you now. The language used to describe...uhh..."increasing" minor vs major versions is exactly the kind of thing package-manager-maintainers would get to decide on. What do you think, we're going to have a congress of linguists to determine command line flag names?
- 2h 4y agothe point is, those two words are essentially fungible. regardless of who says they mean what, they are not right, unless their definition is that they are basically synonymous.