Re: Does Debian = Ubuntu?
2009/7/8 Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de>:
> Andrew M.A. Cater:
>>
>> Upgrades between releases
>> =========================
>>
>> 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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