Welcoming myself to Ubuntu, but I have some questions

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:58:11 +0000 (UTC)
<johnny.kastropf at runbox.com> wrote:

> The question is how upgradable are Ubuntu releases? I read about
> dist-upgrade and read pages like
> http://ubuntuguide.org/#upgradehoarytobreezy which detail that you can
> change the sources to upgrade to 'breezy', but there is a huge warning
> somewhere that it could "break your system".
> 
> So what's the deal here? Can you upgrade or not?  Will I be able to
> upgrade in the future?

My personal experience is that it is simplicity itself to upgrade from
Warty, through Hoary, and into Breezy.  I have done it myself just
recently using synaptic.  Mind you, it took a while on my dial-up
connection but it went smoothly, even despite numerous dropped
connections.  Synaptic just started right back where it had left off.

Cybe R. Wizard
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