Ubuntu 10.04 LTS released

Ioannis Vranos cppdeveloper at ontelecoms.gr
Sun May 2 11:16:27 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 10:52 +0500, Faizan Kazi wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Pastor JW
> <pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org> wrote:
>         On Thursday 29 April 2010 1:26:38 pm Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>         > Myself would go with a clean install (I prefer clean
>         installs than
>         > upgrades).
>         
>         
>         Clean installs are way too windoze for me, I want a distro
>         which can
>         flawlessly upgrade and update itself without having to delete
>         and reinstall
>         all the time.
> 
> I completely agree! One of the most important bits is upgrading
> flawlessly. Clean installs are Windows domain.


While upgrading is nice in theory, the truth is that for every OS, clean
install is the most tested procedure, and thus it leads to the fewest
problems.

So if there is not some data issue, I prefer to back up my data and
perform a clean install.





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Ioannis Vranos

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