Andrew M.A. Cater:
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> Upgrades between releases
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> You'll hear lots of views on this. SUBJECTIVE OPINION FOLLOWS:GUT
> FEELING AND EXPERIENCE IN EQUAL PARTS. Ubuntu is harder to upgrade
> cleanly between releases and it may actually be quicker to reinstall.
> You certainly can't skip a release so you'd need to do 8.04, 8.10,
> 9.04, 9.10 (for example). This is partly a consequence of short release
> cycles above. Debian is _far_ more polished here /SUBJECTIVE
JFTR: Debian doesn't support skipping releases on upgrades either. If
want to to upgrade a woody system to lenny, you have to upgrade to sarge
first. But of course this is less of an issue since Debian doesn't
release that often.
And I think (without being sure) that you can always upgrade from one
Ubuntu LTS release to the next, skipping the intermediate non-LTS
releases.
J.
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