I got into this thread a bit late. But this thread, and others like it, highlights the problem for Ubuntu to become widely adapted beyond the enthusiats, even at home, school, small businesses level.
If the best advice for upgrade to newer release is to clean up to do a fresh install, it really is not a good practice with someone who actually use the system to do real work: run a business, home school their kids, run a library, etc., not just play with it and play games. There has to be a safer upgrade path and better pratice to allow the work environment to be keep reasonably stable so people can get work done on their computers. Not spending a lot of time reinstalling everything and recover all data on such high regularity. Perhaps Ubuntu should consider the Red Hat/Fedoral model. Keep a rapidly upgrading distro and a stable/well tested distro at two somewhat separate but not mutully exclusive paths. I just updated my CentOS servers from 5.4 to 5.5 without any problem, similar to my many previous upgrades. I like both Red Hat and Ubuntu and think they both have their strength. Just some thoughts! Guan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
