[Discuss] OS Switch (was Google hasn't saved my Amarok)

[Peter van Hardenberg]

On 8/26/07, Alan W. Irwin <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:
> Currently we have Debian sarge = oldstable and Ubuntu dapper = 6.06 on our
> two boxes.

Hi Alan,

just a word of advice. I recently went through a rather unpleasant
upgrade process from warty warthog to ... something fresher... on one
of my systems. It seems that the Ubuntu servers only host the last N
versions in their repositories and that can be a real pain when you go
to apt-get something and your sources have disappeared, forcing the
upgrade anyway. There are good migration documents online which warned
me about any pitfalls in going to whatever the current Long Term
Support version is.

-- 
Peter van Hardenberg
Victoria, BC, Canada
"Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt." -- Kurt Vonnegut