[CoLoCo] Ubuntu 8.04 Beta Released

[Walter Lamia]

I have to remark on this, it's one of my main Linux hot buttons. Clean 
installing to upgrade is just not a viable option, once you have 
installed a favorite set of non-standard applications. Going back 
through and figuring out what has been installed, and rebuilding, makes 
upgrading no better, and actually worse, than M$. The Linux community 
MUST address this long-standing issue in a user-friendly way.

Jim Hutchinson wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:27 AM, siblog <tehsiblog at gmail.com 
> <mailto:tehsiblog at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     And I think you can just upgrade to the newest version by running
>     "update-manager -d" or "update-manager --devel-release", that way
>     you don't have to do a full re-install if you don't want to. I
>     have done this for some of the past Alpha releases of Hardy Heron
>     and it has worked great. Here is the link to the upgrade page -
>     https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades
>
>
> I always do a clean install (I have a separate partition for /home). 
> In my experience if you make too many changes the update doesn't go as 
> smooth and I like cleaning things up anyway. My iMac install died 
> anyway. Not sure why but fsck says something about something being 
> shared and it dumps to command line and won't do anything. I think a 
> clean install is called for. I just hope I can use a live cd to copy 
> files off.
>
> -jim
> -- 
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