(X)Ubuntu 9.10

[James McDonald]

The Small Box Admin wrote:
> Yea, I don't do distribution upgrades.  Wipe out and install is my
> modus operandi, then restore backup data.
I usually do that too... don't know what took me this time.

Doing the dist-upgrade on a slow mirror took 5+ hrs. So a 700MB 
download, wipe and install probably would have been quicker / safer.
> http://csc.csudh.edu/kleyba/notgood.png
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> Once is enough for me.
>   

There are so many different packages written by so many different people 
I'm suprised I even got back a booting system.

I will probably end up creating a new user account and moving my files 
to it so I get the look of the new distribution back. The old $HOME 
usually has so much cruft...


Metronome Distribution releases have pro's and some big con's.

Armageddon Distro releases (we know it's coming just not when) have 
different challenges.

When it comes to software and the release management style, there will 
always be several camp's of PRO and CON sayers.

But as David Vizard ( a car tuner ) once said. "I don't have an opinion. 
I have a dyno". In other words. After all the talk it's what is measured 
that stands.... And with Linux Distrobutions or Movies or Politicians 
it's popularity that wins.

> Ken
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:19 PM, James McDonald
> <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
>   
>> Andrew Gould wrote:
>>     
>>> Has anyone installed Xubuntu or Ubuntu 9.10?  Any opinions?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/upgrades-the-wrong-way-ubuntu-9-04-to-9-10
>>
>> See Problem 1:
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