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

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-10-02 13:36-0700 Peter van Hardenberg wrote:

> 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.

Hi Peter:

Debian takes great pride in their user's ability to dist-upgrade from one
version to the next, but I have actually never used that feature and instead
just install fresh each time. The reason for this personal preference is I
feel a fresh install gives me a cleaner system in the end, and a better idea
of the choices that are possible with the new distribution version.

Alan
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