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Mick ha scritto: |
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> b)Upgrades |
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> I ran apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade to upgrade to feisty and ended up |
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> having to reinstall, because the end product was unbootable. There were no |
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> warnings, no messages, no suggestions as to what config files might have |
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> needed editing (don't you just love etc-update). |
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> You might argue that all of the above are indicative of my lack of knowledge |
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> of binary distros, their dependency conflicts and in particular Ubuntu's |
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> inner works. You would be right, except that Ubuntu is meant to be |
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> idiot-proof. On the other hand my Gentoo experience has been comparatively |
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> much more painless and seriously less time consuming, despite needing to iron |
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> out some problems with the installation of postreSQL (a 15 minute exercise in |
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> total). |
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Upgrades on Ubuntu, I agree, just suck. Nearly everyone will advise you |
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to avoid dist-upgrades and just reinstall. I know of people that |
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upgraded painlessly, but they're more the exception than the norm. |
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That's one of the big reasons I don't want it on my desktop box and I'm |
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extremly happy with Gentoo, that requires no full upgrade but works on |
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incremental upgrades. |
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That is THE thing that *buntus should learn hard from gentoo, in fact. |
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m. |
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