On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Arnold Krille
<arnold@arnoldarts.de> wrote:
While I do encounter the odd failure in updates every now and then, the number
of catastrophic failures (possibly resulting in data-loss) has been zero with
SuSE, Gentoo and ubuntu (*). The hours spent getting watching one system to
upgrade while working with another where much better used then the hours spent
setting up a new system with all the small quirks and settings to re-create my
needed working environment.
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.
--Steve