Friday discuss, nostalgy

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Oct 26 17:31:16 UTC 2007


Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:

> Robert Hodgins wrote:
>>> I remember in the "old" times, there was a way to switch from a Debian
>>> to an Ubuntu just by changing the repos in sources.list and making some
>>> minor changes to the system.
>>> Is it now as easy as that yet? :)
>> I'd guess not. Are you interested in being able to switch back and
>> forth?
> 
> I dont think switching to Debian (from Ubuntu) is a real switch _back_.
> And I dont really want to (especially for my desktops), but just asked
> if that "feature" has been maintained.
> 
> Reminding some features of the past just make me realize the amount of
> progress and work on a project.

Sure, you can still do it.  It's not likely to be risk-free, though.
-- 
derek





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