How to call a move from 9.04 to 9.10 as a new install?

[Dotan Cohen]

> Technically, you upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 by using wipe and fresh
> install as the upgrade method. The term "upgrade" implies a transition
>  from one thing to another. For example if you said that you decided to
> upgrade from a 3 series BMW to a 5 series BMW, no one would expect you
> to gut the car and salvage the frame and wheels, then replace then
> engine, seats, body, and feature set of the car but making it
> technically the same car because of the chassis number. Everyone would
> assume you traded in your old one and purchased a new one. This is both
> a new car purchase--and an upgrade by way of trade-in.
>

The problem is that Ubuntu uses the same word "upgrade" for a
different process: that of gutting and salvaging the BMW. Therefore to
avoid ambiguity I ask what the correct word is for the procedure I
described.


> So here we have several important points:
> 1. An upgrade need not retain something of old.

However in this case the term upgrade is ambiguous.


> 3. Anyone who comments on this has too much free time on his hands.
>

While you may have too much free time on your hands, it is important
for those of us responsible for maintaining Ubuntu installations to
differentiate between freshly installed systems and those which were
converted from one version to another.


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Dotan Cohen

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