Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic" Alpha4 and the Intel video drivers...

[Ryan Rix]

Michael Butash wrote:
> I guess I'm lame in assuming or expecting that if they're going to offer
> an upgrade function, that it work.  Microsoft has punished people for 25
> years thinking such heretical thoughts even trying to use their
> *upgrades* between os's, but it's nice to dream that one day it might
> just be reality with some os.  Ubuntu has been about as close as I've
> found, though FreeBSD used to be really good about dist-upgrades too
> when it was my choice in server os.
> 
> -mb

Here's a thought; Why do distros even need 'releases' at all? If a 
constant update cycle was used, rather than one huge dist-upgrade, these 
problems would hardly ever arise... And when they did, it would be with 
one or two components, hopefully NOT mission critical, and could be 
fixed with five minutes of hunting and updating an /etc config file. 
installer ISOs could be generated weekly or so, or just be netinst images
I guess Distrowatch would be out of business in that case.

Upgrades suck, I reinstall ;)

Ryan