2 Jun
2013
2 Jun
'13
2:06 p.m.
On 02/06/13 17:40, david wrote:
On 06/01/2013 03:28 PM, Alf Haakon Lund wrote:
... with more than a little help from that team of a dozen or so guardian angels
behind the scenes in aptosid, managing that small repository of fixes and apt
hold-backs, and making sure their kernel is ready for use so your life is easier
... the way it should be. But your upgrade to sid wasn't with them I guess.
I certainly hope they continue this work, I have been using their system since
they did this work at kannotix 7 years ago, when etch was sid. I had naively
made some choices of hardware that I didn't realise were bold (to put it mildly)
for linux and theirs was the only installer that could boot it. A very big
learning curve on that project, but I got there. I can confirm they do a very
good job.
Simon
On 02. juni 2013 01:32, Len Ovens wrote:
I've tried upgrading Ubuntu from one version to the next, and pretty much had no
success. So with Ubuntu, I prefer a fresh install.
Debian's been no problem at all with upgrades. Even successfully changed from
stable to sid once simply by changing my repositories.
Upgraded Sid on my desktop machine today, 440+ upgraded packages, and it works
flawlessly.
On Sat, June 1, 2013 1:52 pm, Alf Haakon Lund wrote:
They don't. The upgrader is not a UbuntuStudio Project and seems to break
some things in UbuntuStudio. A fresh install just has the low latency
kernel... at least any of the UbuntuStudio versions I have tried ... all
of them from 12.04 to 13.10alpha. I, personally, have had other issues
with upgrades in Ubuntu Studio as well. Reinstall is best. (but then I
have been doing fresh installs since SlackWare 0.9.* or so... maybe I
should come out of the dark ages?)
Thank you! Makes me wonder how the generic kernel entered my system,
then, but not enough to investigate! I'll just remove the generics...
As for upgrade vs fresh install I never managed one successful upgrade
(OK, maybe I tried just twice ;-) ) so I prefer the fresh install.
Though I've broken a bone or two by leaving all the config files on my
home partition and then installing on the root partition. WOW, can it
break things...