4 Nov
2009
4 Nov
'09
11:12 p.m.
I'll post my results should I change my mind and
succeed in upgrading, tho it
rather looks like a reinstall at the moment which I have about as much a head
for as for a nazi row. (I haven't reinstalled since 2003 and I'm not willing
to start now.)
You will find that installing the *buntus of today is much easier than
any distro was in 2003. In fact, I don't "upgrade" [K]ubuntu installs,
rather I fresh install and restore /home. It takes about half an hour
and there is no danger of some wayward or forgotten PPA messing things
up. I do keep track of which programs were installed though, and a
quick apt-get installs them all on the new system as well.
Sometimes a user's config file will be incompatible with the newer
version of the software, but that is very rare. In fact, in recent
memory the only time I saw that was KDE 4.1 to KDE 4.2 had a plasma
panel config problem. It was no big deal.
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Dotan Cohen
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