upgrade 6.1 to 7.04

[Pastor JW]

On Tuesday 17 March 2009 8:11:36 am Nils Kassube wrote:
> Pastor JW wrote:
> > On Sunday 15 March 2009 11:03:24 am Nils Kassube wrote:
> > > Lorcan O'Neill wrote:
> If you read the links you will see that they point to the oldreleases
> repository. So it IS possible to upgrade old systems.

AH!  You caught me!  I just saw the warning on the top of the page and thought 
the instructions being listed there were no longer current rather than the 
version.  Turns out the page is indeed current and gives the instructions for 
the non-supported version to upgrade.   

> > I know Ubuntu is
> > a fantastic system and some don't want to upgrade their working
> > system but it would be nice to sustain a working upgrade path of some
> > sort.
>
> That's what the oldreleases repository is good for. Like you said, it
> should be available, and it is. OTOH, it should NOT be available from
> the standard repository because then you might think the old system
> would still get updates which will not happen. Moving to oldreleases
> makes people wake up because their system is no longer supported.

Good deal!  I feel alot better now about my suggesting Ubuntu to people!  I 
was doing that anyway but also suggested people pay attention to and use the 
LTS versions as support lasts longer.  Some people don't like having to 
upgrade every six months and feel better with an OS stable enough to run for 
a couple years or so.  Others like the bleeding edge!  Kubuntu 8.10 leaps to 
mind!   That was fun for me but it would have been a real pain for my 
brother.  Thanks for the enlightenment!  :)  :)

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