On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:37:17AM +1000, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 23:47:21 +0000 > Chris N9JCA <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Not to offend anyone, but my suggestion > > is to ditch Ubuntu and use Debian "proper" Tom has the right idea > > too, as he stays with the LTD versions (this is the only good thing I > > have to say about Ubuntu) > > > Debian is constructed in a way which allows incremental upgrading, or > massive upgrading, but neither requires a reinstall. > Ubuntu is not constructed the same way, so the intention of their > developers is that you do a reinstall of Ubuntu when you wish to > upgrade. Of course, some can manipulate their installs and upgrade > Ubuntu, but it takes additional expertise.
I hate that the recommended upgrade path is a reinstall. That is insane, and completely unnecessary. Having run Ubuntu on a couple of laptops since 6.04, I have *never* done a complete reinstall unless I'm replacing disks or complete machines. Upgrades generally work OK, if you're careful. Then again, I am fed up with their 6-month unstable cycle, and only do the upgrades every 2-3 years. Too much breaks on the 6 month cycle. I don't need to be fixing stuff twice a year. I have also done Debian installs, and like them fine. One of the IGates I run is a Debian machine. For the appliance SAR laptop, though, Ubuntu LTS releases work OK for me. And for my serious work machines, I use FreeBSD anyway. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
