Guan Hsu wrote: > 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 Sounds like Arch would fit the bill, but it may be too breaky
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