Quentin Hartman wrote:
> I keep hearing these horror stories of going from dapper to edgy. I've
> upgraded at least a dozen installations from d->e and not one went sideways.
> All of them were "desktop" installations with the usual mess of binary
> drivers, restrictced codecs, etc. I think the ke
Package Repositories that stray from the standard repos.
Sometimes added to gain software deemed "illegal" in the USA
such as software so you can watch a DVD on your computer that
you legally own and are entitled to watching.
--- "Robert M. Solovay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> What is
I'll wing it and say that means repository.
Brian
P.S. in the future we will have a third brain lobe to support all these
acronyms and abbreviations.
Robert M. Solovay wrote:
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Quentin Hartman wrote:
I keep hearing these horror stories of going from dapper to edgy. I
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Quentin Hartman wrote:
I keep hearing these horror stories of going from dapper to edgy. I've
upgraded at least a dozen installations from d->e and not one went sideways.
All of them were "desktop" installations with the usual mess of binary
drivers, restrictced codecs, e
I keep hearing these horror stories of going from dapper to edgy. I've
upgraded at least a dozen installations from d->e and not one went sideways.
All of them were "desktop" installations with the usual mess of binary
drivers, restrictced codecs, etc. I think the key is not to use third-party
rep
I'm 0.5 for three with upgrading Dapper to Edgy. Two of them failed
so completely that I had to wipe, install, and restore backups. The
third one is broken in small ways*, but it boots, and I haven't had
time to reinstall.
See that surprises me. I have one system that went from 5.10, to 6.06,
Rob Hudson wrote:
> Heh. Let us know the good answer if you find it. I haven't gone
> through an Ubuntu upgrade myself, but I've heard not-so-good things.
I'm 0.5 for three with upgrading Dapper to Edgy. Two of them failed
so completely that I had to wipe, install, and restore backups. The
t
Bob Miller wrote:
Rob Hudson wrote:
Upgrade from 6.06 LTS to next LTS release?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=290315
I didn't read the whole thread but Google showed me that.
I can summarize the thread: "We're a bunch of fanboys too stupid
to understand a simple question, let alone
From what I have seen the transition from 6.06 to 6.10 (dapper to
edgy) is the dodgy one.
init is different from one to the other, so don't expect to just
switch repositories apt-get dist-upgrade and have done with it. if
you've set up anything that will start on boot or execute at shutdown
you
Rob Hudson wrote:
> Upgrade from 6.06 LTS to next LTS release?
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=290315
>
> I didn't read the whole thread but Google showed me that.
I can summarize the thread: "We're a bunch of fanboys too stupid
to understand a simple question, let alone answer it."
Upgrade from 6.06 LTS to next LTS release?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=290315
I didn't read the whole thread but Google showed me that.
-Rob
Bob Miller wrote:
Today there is only one Ubuntu LTS release: 6.06. Does anyone know
whether the Ubuntu project intends to support directly
Bob Miller wrote:
Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning, "Will Debian ever release?"
I thought it meant, "Sick of compiling Gentoo." ;)
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Today there is only one Ubuntu LTS release: 6.06. Does anyone know
whether the Ubuntu project intends to support directly upgrading from
6.06 to the next LTS release (7.10 or whatever it ends up being)?
Or will we have to drag our servers through the slime of upgrading to
6.10, 7.04, and then 7.1
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