Unity-2D/Ubuntu Classic (was: Unity: Nothing can go wrong!)

[David Gerard]

On 17 April 2011 19:48, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mind you, saying that, this install is getting a bit ropy and flakey
> now. It started off as 9.10 and has been repeatedly upgraded since.
> I'm very happy for all those people for whom upgrades are
> trouble-free, but I add lots of stuff, remove things that I don't like
> or don't use (e.g. Empathy, Evolution) and have loads of extra repos
> and things. This causes Ubuntu to rot fairly badly inside about 4
> releases, I find.


You last four? I can't think of any installs of mine that I put
through more than two. These days I reinstall fresh.

The chained upgrades trick works in Debian because they work quite
hard to keep it working. It just doesn't work reliably in Ubuntu, in
my experience (running every version since 5.04).


- d.