[ubuntu-uk] Not a good press

[Alan Pope]

2009/11/3 Alan Bell <alan.bell at theopenlearningcentre.com>:
> an upgrade advisor is an excellent idea, in fact a hardware testing tool
> that scans PCI and USB bus and summarises the level of support for each
> item by looking it up on the web would be an excellent tool. Thinking
> about it there is no reason why such a tool shouldn't be available on
> other operating systems too so that people can get a level of comfort
> before switching to Ubuntu
>

There's also the -s option to do-release-upgrade which does a test
upgrade using an aufs overlay :)

Never tried it but it sounds fun. In theory you can undo the upgrade
if it fails, rolling you back to the previous release.

Any takers? :)

Cheers,
Al.