Upgrade to Fiesty

[Howard Coles Jr.]

On Tuesday 16 January 2007 9:11 pm, Chris Miller wrote:
> On 1/16/07, Howard Coles Jr. <dhcolesj at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 January 2007 8:01 pm, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > > On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:45:58 -0600 "Howard Coles Jr."
> > > <dhcolesj at gmail.com>
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > > >Has anyone tried to in-place upgrade yet?
> > > >I was wondering if the directions for upgrading from Dapper to Edgy
> > > > would
> > >
> > > also
> > >
> > > >work for Edgy to Fiesty or Dapper to Fiesty.
> > >
> > > Dapper to Fiesty directly is definitely not supported.  I don't know
> > > about the rest.
> >
> > I figured as much.  How about the rest?  Has anyone upgraded from Edgy to
> > Fiesty?  Its only in Alpha 2 so I'm not holding much hope that it goes
> > like clockwork, I jut wondered what problems there were.
>
> As a developer (not for any *buntu projects, though) I feel obligated
> to tell you this:
>
> Alpha software is as-yet un-tested software.  Testing goes something like:
>
> fix compile errors -> alpha test -> beta test -> release to public
>
> You're going to have an extremely bumpy ride.

Yea, I've been there before.  That's why I asked "What problems there were" 
instead of "Are there any problems."

I used to run Debian SID as my primary Desktop OS.  Believe it or not, it 
wasn't too bad.  Mainly, I think, because of the Debian Dev.'s hang up on 
stability.  Their idea of Alpha would probably be SUSE's idea of Release 
Candidate 1. =)


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See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
John 3:16!