Gour wrote:
Otoh, with Ubuntu, upgrade from 8.10 to 10.10 is always a major undertaking (I'm familiar with it since '99 when I used SuSE and had experience with deps hell.)
I finally did do it, but as a clean install. I found an old 160G drive, wiped it, and installed 10.10 on it. (Amusingly, the "About Ubuntu" box says it's version 11.04, and /etc/issue says it's 10.10.)
I attached the old drive through a usb port, and copied everything on it into a subdirectory of the new drive. Then, file and directory by file and directory, I moved the files into place on my new home directory.
The main difficulty was the . files, which litter the home directory and gawd knows what they do or are for. This is one reason why I tend to stick with all defaults.
The only real problem I've run into (so far) is the sunbird calendar has been unceremoniously dumped from Ubuntu. The data file for it is in some crappy binary format, so poof, there goes all my calendar data. Why do I bother with this crap. I think I'll stick with the ipod calendar.
Phobos1 on 10.10 is dying in its unit tests because Ubuntu changed how gcc's strtof() works. Erratic floating point is typical of C runtime library implementations (the transcendentals are often sloppily done), which is why more and more Phobos uses its own implementations that Don has put together.
