Re: etch --> testing
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charlie derr wrote:
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|> I went the Ubuntu route a couple of years ago. It's fun until you do a
|> routine update and everything breaks.
? Ive used it on this laptop for almost 3 years, and never had a problem
with anything breaking. you use some off the wall repositories or
something?
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| He actually has a second machine (laptop) with ubuntu on it (an attempt
| to switch distros in the past). Since I'm not nearly as proficient with
| untangling ubuntu problems as I am with understanding debian, I don't
| think that it really makes sense (in the past there were other
| ubuntu-lovers around that he could also lean on but that's no longer the
| case). The laptop has dapper on it, and from what little I've read,
| the upgrade path for ubuntu mostly means wipe;reinstall -- if the
| desktop machine goes to testing without much of a hitch, then I guess
| we'll then be faced with the decision of what to upgrade the laptop to.
wipe and reinstall? the only reason anyone might want to do that is if
the disk is corrupted. when the upgrades work flawlessly in ubuntu, why
would anyone want to re install?
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Steve Reilly
http://reillyblog.com
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