Star Week in Review: Ubuntu, Language, Rebel EFI
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 1st Nov 2009 22:57 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes Another week gone bye-bye, another Week in Review. Ubuntu 9.10 was the star of the week of course, but we also talked about language, the HTC Hero, and wall warts. Yes we did.
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RE: Ubuntu...
by cmost on Mon 2nd Nov 2009 00:47 UTC in reply to "Ubuntu..."
cmost
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2006-07-16

I made the mistake of deciding to do a distro upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10. DON'T try that. It might work, or it might fail horribly and leave you with a barely usable installation like it did me ;)


Contrary to popular belief, upgrades from one version of Ubuntu to the next rarely if ever work correctly. I think because it could theoretically work for a select few people, the devs like to tout the process as foolproof for everybody. Hardly! Many people utilize PPA repositories or install software from source which could present problems when upgrading. I learned that lesson the hard way quite awhile ago and always do a fresh install.

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