[xubuntu-users] Upgrade

[Adam Miller]

No offense, but software has come a long way in "years" and thus their
download size has become larger so in the event your internet connection is
lacking then it will take quite some time to download. Please also note that
the servers are still under considerable load due to the recent release of
the official images and therefore your upgrade time probably will not be as
stellar is it possibly could be.

Another thing to take into consideration is that distros such as debian,
slackware, arch, gentoo, etc. do not come default with all the packages that
*buntu variants do that gear the distro towards the desktop as its main
operating platform and will result in many less default packages and also in
less data to download (note that gentoo's download would be fast because the
source packages are generally small but the compile time will require some
patience).

-Adam

On 4/25/07, Daniel Bodanske <daengbo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So I guess that's sarcasm, then. Are you on dial-up?
>
> Dan
>
> On 4/25/07, Gary Crosby <grcrosby at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm impressed. So far, using the official upgrade path, it has been
> > four days and counting to upgrade. I come home and there is another
> > thing to click on and the upgrade manager says another six hours until
> > it is totally installed.
> >
> > On the last upgrade (Xu 6.10) I had to reformat and reinstall
> > everything. My main distro is Slack, and I have never spent more than
> > two hours upgrading & that was years ago.
> >
> > Someday soon I hope that the installer works as well as Slack's.
> >
> > gary
> >
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