[11.04]-Turn Off Unity & Use Classic Gnome?

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Alan Pope <popey at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 15 February 2011 16:10, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> You do realise that you can only upgrade from one release to the next?
>
> Not true. You _can_ skip releases. I've done it a few times. I'm not
> recommending that people should, or that it's wise, just that you
> _can_.

Oh really? With the update manager? I thought that was expressly
forbidden. Or are you talking about leaping in with editing
sources.list and doing an apt-get dist-upgrade? I've comprehensively
broken a Debian 5 box with that approach in recent months and would be
loath to try again, frankly.

> In addition you can take a full system backup (clonezilla) and do an
> upgrade, test it, if it fails, restore. Upgrades aren't a one-way
> street.

Sort of goes without saying, really. :¬)

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