> Bob Elzer wrote:
>> The best way to upgrade an OS is to do a fresh install.
How extraordinarily annoying. I have installed Gentoo once on my
laptop, when I got it, 3 years ago, and have kept it up to date with
the portage system. In most cases, that approach Just Works from
what I can see. I'm a huge fan of the gradual update process as
done in Gentoo, since it rarely breaks everything and you can almost
always tell what broke and then fix it.
(Like a few months ago, when libexpat upgrades made all KDE and
GNOME apps throw a wobbly. revdep-rebuild to the rescue....)
From: Michael Butash <
michael@butash.net>
> don't like having to spend a night reinstalling and tweaking to get
> it back to where I had it. I don't mind fixing problems when they
> arise after installs, as I see them as adventures in learning more
> about systems, but they're no less annoying when they arise.
>
> I guess I'm lame in assuming or expecting that if they're going to
> offer an upgrade function, that it work.
Ubuntu's problem AFAICT is that they're trying to be New! Shiny! and
Awesome!. This is a worthy goal, but it can lead to the system
being as stable as a stegosaurus on rocket-powered roller skates.
Debian seems to be much better at the whole upgrade thing because
they're so conservative in moving forward in stable.
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