Luke Kendall wrote: > AFAIK, no Linux distro is considered quite safe to upgrade from one > release to the next (e.g. from SuSE 9.2 to SuSE 10.0, or FC 4 to FC 5).
My current laptop was installed from an Ubuntu Warty CD because its all I had on hand at the time. I then immediately dist-upgraded it to the Breezy release (5.10) without even having a CD, just distupgrade over the net. Then, about 3-4 weeks ago I dist-upgraded the machine to Dapper, again no cdrom, just the net. The Warty to Breezy upgrade was completely painless. Some stuff that didn't work in Warty started working in Breezy. The Breezy to Dapper upgrade was marginally more painful but an order of magnitude less painful than installing from scratch and then reapplying tweaks. Debian is similarly easily upgradable, but all my machines run testing and therefore never need anything like a full upgrade. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "I have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach it's really a sign of affection, but I don't see any reason for programming languages to show affection with pain." -- Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html