* On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 01:33:47PM +1000, 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).
Uhhh, how about Debian (and variants like Ubuntu)? Upgrading is very safe, and if you have doubts about a particular package, you can always pin it and do the upgrade at a later stage. Any problems I've had have usually been caused by software that was installed manually rather than thru a package. > I must be one of the few people on the planet still running RH 7.2. > (I do it because I begrudge spending the days or weeks getting all the > extra packages installed that I like.) But it's now too old, and > really should be replaced. I think all Linuxes (even Debian) would have issues when doing such a large version increase; in Debian would be solveable but take a fair bit of work. If you've got different partions (eg /home, /var) it can be easier to reinstall and keep your existing data on these separate partions. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . "Complaining that Linux doesn't work well with Windows is like ... oh, say, evaluating an early automobile and complaining that there's no place to hitch up a horse." (Daniel Dvorkin) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
