27 Jul
2017
27 Jul
'17
12:34 a.m.
On Thursday 27 of July 2017 02:05:07 Felix Miata wrote:
dep composed on 2017-07-26 19:47 (UTC-0400):
On my test machine, I have encountered substantial problems when updating
14.04 => 16.04. The network was not running, NIS was not working ... it
was not good. The only function I've found is to update through all the
versions in between 14.04 => 14.10 => 15.04 => 15.10 => 16.04.
It was terrible, but otherwise I did not have a properly functioning
system. Therefore I definitely do not recommend updating from 12.04
directly to 16.04.
--
Slávek
while i'm here -- there was talk that there
was something wrong with
16.04 and that 14.04 was preferable. as my current situation
demonstrates, i'm not a big fan of upgrading distributions, and going
only to 14.04 means i get to do this all over again in two years. so
-- have the issues with 16.04 been ironed out, or is it still to be
avoided?
Are you sure the problem with 16.04 wasn't about KDE users upgrading
from a mature KDE4 to a buggy Plasma 5 rather than 14.04LTS itself?
What does Ubuntu offer a TDE user over the Debian base on which Ubuntu
is based anyway?
Is going straight from 12.04 to 16.04 even supported? To keep trouble
to a minimum or nil probably requires going to 14.04 first.