On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Ric Moore <<a href="mailto:wayward4now@gmail.com">wayward4now@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > On 12/12/2011 03:37 AM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: >>> Sure you can, ...in theory. But with your limited knowledge of all things >>> Ubuntu/Linux it might be preferable to make small steps instead of giant >>> leaps. Some have reported success doing the LTS to LTS upgrade. >> Ric, that's just completely absolutely wrong. > Read again, I said "in theory" and "Some have reported success doing the LTS > to LTS upgrade". So, just how it that completely absolutely wrong? You need > to brush up on your reading skills, IMHO, before making such a declarative > statement. > Now, my perspective is that human beings make mistakes, on the statistical > average, of 15% of the time. Then you take a 10.4 installation and ramp it > up past three releases in order to "upgrade" to 12.4. It's not whether you > can do it or not, the question is ~if~ you want to do that. > Will ALL of your newly installed package's config files be replaced properly > with that giant of a leap? Again, no one is perfect, not even the Devels. > The chance for mistakes to appear, to me, is greater and should be > ~considered~. Especially when the newbie do'er can't even manage to use > google and will need intensive hand holding as stuff breaks. > I never said it wouldn't work, I'm saying to take these things into > consideration before you do, or advise others to do so. Check out my Linux > Counter number, I've been around awhile and have seen much blow up in very > interesting ways. And, I haven't run into anything I couldn't fix myself > without crying, whining and running multiple threads ad nauseum, as I > ignorantly proceed to break my own stuff and drag others into the day-to-day > unfolding drama. Ric, might be Hakan just wrote your name but his intention was something different I guess. I read and have found LTS to LTS upgradations successful too.