Muon Update Manager

[Clay Weber]

On Saturday, October 25, 2014 01:03:00 AM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-10-25 at 08:46 +1000, Phil wrote:
> > Thank you for reading this.
> > 
> > I have Muon Update Manager's "Release upgrade" set to Normal Releases"
> > yet I'm not notified of the new release. Xubuntu's updater (not on the
> > same laptop) is similar to Muon Update Manager and it did show that
> > 14.10 was available.
> > 
> > I suspect that I have a conflicting configuration somewhere. Is there a
> > way of forcing the upgrade or at least forcing the notification?
> 
> "Forcing" a relase upgrade could be done by command line:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/installing-upgrading.html
> 
> Notification about what kind of upgrade ever are a silly custom. That
> makes people upgrade without at least reading the news of their distro's
> homepage, let alone that they never ever will read release notes. A
> notification "hello, here are upgrades" is insane, a self-responsible
> user is aware about needed upgrades and about things that need attention
> when doing an upgrade. Just upgrading, while there is a notification
> easily could end up disastrous. *buntu made a big step into the wrong
> direction with this Windows/iOS like approach.
> 

Meh. I guess we should do everything your way :)
Some people like, appreciate, and want such things. I do. It can be turned off 
if one does not want them to happen. 


> JFTR the Ubuntu Studio team compared release upgrades with installing a
> new release and *buntu rlease upgrades tend to cause issues, you better
> stay with your release or do a plain new install.

I am not noticing any significant upgrade issues, based on the overall low 
level of reports of them in irc and in kubuntuforums.  I am sure many have not 
upgraded yet, so that may change as the weekend comes around and more folks do 
the deed.

Anecdotally, my 2 upgrades were 100 percent flawless.  My PC is on its third 
upgrade in a row without flaw. 

*My* suggestion is to do what  you want.

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Clay Weber (claydoh)
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