gOS 3.1 is, just like gOS 3.0, based on the latest "long term stable" version of Ubuntu 8.04 (A.K.A. Hardy Heron), older versions were all based on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). Ubuntu is NOT compatible with (elements of) Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) so manually upgrading with Ubuntu 8.10 repositories may break your system, rendering it unusable!
Note that updating your system (with the automatic update manager) is fine because the "software sources" only contain URL links to repositories with Ubuntu 7.04 compatible software, or (if you installed the right link (see welcome message on main page here) with gOS specific repositories (for gOS specific updates). Up-dating is installing updates (improved elements) of the same basic OS, while up-grading is removing basic OS elements and replacing them with versions for a new OS version. See it like this, if you have Windows XP, then up-DATEing is like installing security patches for windows XP, while up-GRADing is like installing Windows Vista. Remarkably Ubuntu is capable of just that latter feat, but only because Canonical (the makers of Ubuntu) wrote a specific upgrading engine to do exactly that. But because Good OS (the makers of gOS) are not part and parcel of Canonical, Canonical does not care that their up-grader is incompatible with gOS, so using it will break gOS, as gOS is too different from regular Ubuntu for the up-grader to work. gOS won't auto upgrade (and break your system), unless you muck around with software sources, or with Synaptic, so be careful with these, and never allow an upgrade, only updates. On 3 jan, 23:33, elliott-brennan <[email protected]> wrote: > Good point, Scott. > > I think this is worth highlighting for people who > haven't quite got the terminology down pat yet. > > Updating is getting the newest version of an > application. > > Upgrading is getting the newest version of the > distro (operating system) you are using. > > Regards, > > Patrick > > > > Scott Miller wrote: > > Unless I'm mistaken, gOS is still based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and you do > > not want to enable upgrades in your repository list. Updates are OK, > > but upgrades will break gOS. > > > cheers, > > > Scott > > > On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 3:14 PM, The questionator > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> At the download section for the gOS gadgets 3.0, do those download > >> links contain the new version of Ubuntu or does it still have the > >> older version? > > -- > Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
