importance of upgradeability

[Fred Smith]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:38:49AM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, lee wrote:
> 
> >Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> writes:
> 
> >>Having precisely one computer meant that I couldn't
> >>look for on-line help while doing an install.
> >
> >That's one big advantage of the life systems some distributions have:
> >You can always boot that and look for help even while installing.  If
> >something went wrong, you can reboot the life system and use it to find
> >more help.
> 
> What does "life systems" mean in this context?
> googling mostly got me proper nouns.

liVe, not liFe

> 
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