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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Arnold Krille <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arnold@arnoldarts.de">arnold@arnoldarts.de</a>></span> wrote:
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">While I do encounter the odd failure in updates every now and then, the number<br>of catastrophic failures (possibly resulting in data-loss) has been zero with<br>
SuSE, Gentoo and ubuntu (*). The hours spent getting watching one system to<br>upgrade while working with another where much better used then the hours spent<br>setting up a new system with all the small quirks and settings to re-create my<br>
needed working environment.<br></blockquote>
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<div>You didn't mention Fedora. I speak from experience, particularly from upgrading FC8, and by "catastophic" I mean a failure that forces you to scrap all efforts to complete the upgrade process and resort to a clean installation. Usually the failure happens after you've wasted a significant amount of time and is so frustrating that you will swear off ever upgrading a Fedora release again especially if it is for more than 2 major releases. FC8 has been end of life for 2 years and a lot has changed since then so expect problems.</div>
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<div>--Steve</div></div>