Re: Current RDMD, please?

[Walter Bright]

retard wrote:
You also mentioned that upgrading Ubuntu has always failed. I've noticed 
that if you wait few weeks after the new release, the automatic upgrade 
is more successful. Also the problems are rather minor - start terminal 
and write 'sudo dpkg ..something..; sudo aptitude update; sudo aptitude 
dist-upgrade'. My laptop has been running Ubuntu since 6.06 beta 
releases. I once tried Kubuntu, but went back to Ubuntu because of the 
stability issues (yea, a reformat even though removing kubuntu-desktop 
might have been enough).

My problems weren't minor, as in all my apps were completely hosed, including 
standard Ubuntu supplied stuff. It took me a long time googling to figure out 
how to get it to recognize my display again. The final straw was it completely 
trashed my install of VMware, wiping out all my virtual OS boxes. Bah. No more 
Ubuntu upgrades for me.

And before anyone asks, no, I was not running a tweaked Ubuntu system. It's all 
vanilla, right out of the box.