[CoLoCo] Ubuntu 8.04 Beta Released

[Jim Hutchinson]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Walter Lamia <walterlamia at buildingcoach.com>
wrote:

>  I have to remark on this, it's one of my main Linux hot buttons. Clean
> installing to upgrade is just not a viable option, once you have installed a
> favorite set of non-standard applications. Going back through and figuring
> out what has been installed, and rebuilding, makes upgrading no better, and
> actually worse, than M$. The Linux community MUST address this long-standing
> issue in a user-friendly way.
>

I agree that there should be a fairly foolproof upgrade option but windows
and OSX are not foolproof yet either - although OSX is close. The problem is
there are just too many possible changes that can't be anticipated. If your
system is basically default I think it works well, but most people make a
lot of changes. I think the best solution would an upgrade tool that does a
clean install but keeps all your changes. Although I'm not sure how that
would work and it would probably be slow.

Also, upgrading is usually quite slow. Even counting the downloading and
burning of the ISO you can do a clean install in probably close to an hour
or so (broadband and not on release day). If you keep /home on it's own
partition the only thing lost is additional apps and you can save a list of
those to later install and possible some config files which could be backed
up easily.

-jim
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