Goodbye Linux/Ubuntu

W. Scott Lockwood III scott at guppylog.com
Thu May 27 15:49:11 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 22:17 +0800, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
> W. Scott Lockwood III wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 09:48 -0400, Maxime Alarie wrote:
> >> I never install a fresh release. Usually, if everything works fine
> >> with a  Live USB.. I upgrade.
> >>
> > 9.10 was such a mess for me. I backed up /usr/local, /home/<users>,
> > and /etc and did a wipe and reinstall. I then hand selected various
> > things from the backup to go onto the fresh install. My laptop is much
> > happier now.
> > 
> >   
> 
> I wonder if one can do a 9.04 -> 10.04 or does one have to go through 
> each release once you have left LTS land...

You can do that. I still recommend the backup, wipe, reload with new OS
method.

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