Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-28 Thread Bob McGowan
On 04/25/2011 03:14 PM, Steven Rosenberg wrote: On 04/21/2011 03:14 AM, David Sanders wrote: Hello List, I'm just returning to Debian after a long absence over in Ubuntu land. The upcoming train-crash that is the Unity UI, and some over-political --deleted-- I personally would never do

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-25 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 04/21/2011 03:14 AM, David Sanders wrote: Hello List, I'm just returning to Debian after a long absence over in Ubuntu land. The upcoming train-crash that is the Unity UI, and some over-political decision making in the community has led me to jump back to a more sensible and technology-led

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-23 Thread David Sanders
On 23 April 2011 04:24, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: George Standish said: Ubuntu regularly has issues upgrading from one version to another, now you expect it to upgrade to a new distro...  This idea doesn't seem like a good idea to me. In fairness to Ubuntu, I've been

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 21 apr 11, 11:55:05, George Standish wrote: On 21/04/11 06:14 AM, David Sanders wrote: So, a small question - How suicidal is crossgrading back to Debian by altering my APT sources? I was interested if this had any chance of working, so I tried in a VM to go from Ubuntu 10.10 to

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 23/04/11 05:24, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: George Standish said: Ubuntu regularly has issues upgrading from one version to another, now you expect it to upgrade to a new distro... This idea doesn't seem like a good idea to me. - I agree with this assessment though any ubuntu

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-22 Thread teddieeb
George Standish said: Ubuntu regularly has issues upgrading from one version to another, now you expect it to upgrade to a new distro... This idea doesn't seem like a good idea to me. - I agree with this assessment though any ubuntu head will challenge any statement like this with such

Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-21 Thread David Sanders
Hello List, I'm just returning to Debian after a long absence over in Ubuntu land. The upcoming train-crash that is the Unity UI, and some over-political decision making in the community has led me to jump back to a more sensible and technology-led distro where, I hope, one man's pride isn't

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-21 Thread teddieeb
David Sanders said: So, a small question - How suicidal is crossgrading back to Debian by altering my APT sources? I've seen a few blogs saying it works, and I do have a lot of customised stuff on my main laptop which I'd prefer not to have to recompile. I'm pretty technically-adept and don't

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-21 Thread David Sanders
Really I think you'll have to bite the bullet and take it as it comes. But I'm not an expert by any means That appears to be the case :-) You may hear my screams on the list later today! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-21 Thread George Standish
On 21/04/11 06:14 AM, David Sanders wrote: The upcoming train-crash that is the Unity UI, and some over-political decision making in the community has led me to jump back to a more sensible and technology-led distro.. Unity is what brought me to Debian. Recent Canonical decisions only

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-21 Thread George Standish
On 21/04/11 06:14 AM, David Sanders wrote: So, a small question - How suicidal is crossgrading back to Debian by altering my APT sources? I was interested if this had any chance of working, so I tried in a VM to go from Ubuntu 10.10 to Squeeze. I failed miserably (possibly due to user

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-21 Thread shawn wilson
if you still have that vm up On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:55 AM, George Standish george.stand...@gmail.com wrote: On 21/04/11 06:14 AM, David Sanders wrote: So, a small question - How suicidal is crossgrading back to Debian by altering my APT sources? I was interested if this had any

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-21 Thread George Standish
On 21/04/11 12:04 PM, shawn wilson wrote: if you still have that vm up :( No sorry, I've deleted it already. I couldn't even boot up the system in recovery mode. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact