Mick ha scritto: > b)Upgrades > > I ran apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade to upgrade to feisty and ended up > having to reinstall, because the end product was unbootable. There were no > warnings, no messages, no suggestions as to what config files might have > needed editing (don't you just love etc-update). > > You might argue that all of the above are indicative of my lack of knowledge > of binary distros, their dependency conflicts and in particular Ubuntu's > inner works. You would be right, except that Ubuntu is meant to be > idiot-proof. On the other hand my Gentoo experience has been comparatively > much more painless and seriously less time consuming, despite needing to iron > out some problems with the installation of postreSQL (a 15 minute exercise in > total).
Upgrades on Ubuntu, I agree, just suck. Nearly everyone will advise you to avoid dist-upgrades and just reinstall. I know of people that upgraded painlessly, but they're more the exception than the norm. That's one of the big reasons I don't want it on my desktop box and I'm extremly happy with Gentoo, that requires no full upgrade but works on incremental upgrades. That is THE thing that *buntus should learn hard from gentoo, in fact. m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
