Upgradephobia!

Joep L. Blom jlblom at neuroweave.nl
Sun Nov 1 00:46:16 UTC 2009


Steve wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:59:36 -0000, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl>  
> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Normally I do that but today I was adventurous and accidentally started
>> upgrading my Karmic Beta and it did it not completely flawlessly as some
>> repositories were not reachable but otherwise chapeau for a very stable
>> upgrade path. Try that with commercial software.
>> Joep
>>
>>
>   I must admit, I’m constantly amazed at how well the upgrade process  
> works, even when the cat removed a power lead during an upgrade I was able  
> to rescue it.  I have one drive that has been upgraded from 5.10 and is  
> now fitted to it’s third different Mobo that I will be upgrading to 9.10  
> tomorrow, the only problems I’ve had are related to Flash and/or java, a  
> quick alteration of the appropriate simlinks cures it, or the variuos  
> third party repos
> I’ve probably jinxed it now.
Yes of course proprietary and proprietary (closed source).
Joep





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