On 12/11/2007, Vikas Rawal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > There's nothing really wrong with that distribution cycle. In fact, time > > based release cycle is a good balance between features and quality. > > If you're not able to keep pace with the releases, know that they are > > supported for 18 months. And the LTS (like Dapper Drake) are supported > > for 18 months. > > > I could be wrong, and if I am, please do correct me. LTS is supported > for 18 months. Releases in between are supported for 6 months (isn't > it).
Well, I quoted that from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases . They assert that LTS is for 3 years. Also, my experience has been that in case of upgrading (as against fresh > installation), you have to upgrade to the immediate next release. So > you would not be able to upgrade from dapper to feisty directly. You > would have to first upgrade to edgy and then to feisty. Similarly, you > could upgrade to gutsy only from feisty. There is no way that I know > of upgrading from edgy to gutsy directly. You're absolutely right. Like Niyam, I don't upgrade at all. I would do a fresh installation of Feisty or Grumpy. Upgrades have not been very successful, many break. And even when upgrading you've to download a lot. So why not just have a new installation. Fresh installation would mean that I have to configure all the > software all over again: postfix, mysql, apache....It would be a > really long list, and would take me quite a few days to implement. For me, the configuration takes about a week. To have a list of packages, I usually - (On old system) dpkg --get-selections > ~/myinstalls - Save the myinstalls file - ((On new system) dpkg --set-selections < myinstalls - (On new system) sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade This relieves me from the pain of reinstalling everything again manually. Hope it helps someone. - Kazim Zaidi Blog: http://tuxplayground.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
