Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 84.0.63.94]
on May 08, 2008 07:12 PM
"an update gone wrong, according to traditional thinking"
Forgive me for putting it plainly, but nobody should ever touch a distro with a thousand-foot pole if it can't do a clean update between releases. No way in hell.
This is not something that is just being discovered, it's a way of doing updates in sane distros for ages now, and it's a good way so. I don't have anything against Ubuntu, I'm saying this totally generally: if it can't do it, drop it in the trash and use one which can ! My longest Linux install lasted many years, survived many partial and full hardware replacements, and it was good so.
One shouldn't educate people to be tolerant with distros that might brake an upgrade process, people should drop that distro, or demand a proper and trustworthy upgrade process that always works. End of line.
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Ubuntu 8.04: Upgrade or clean install?
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 84.0.63.94] on May 08, 2008 07:12 PMForgive me for putting it plainly, but nobody should ever touch a distro with a thousand-foot pole if it can't do a clean update between releases. No way in hell.
This is not something that is just being discovered, it's a way of doing updates in sane distros for ages now, and it's a good way so. I don't have anything against Ubuntu, I'm saying this totally generally: if it can't do it, drop it in the trash and use one which can ! My longest Linux install lasted many years, survived many partial and full hardware replacements, and it was good so.
One shouldn't educate people to be tolerant with distros that might brake an upgrade process, people should drop that distro, or demand a proper and trustworthy upgrade process that always works. End of line.
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