[ale] Losing Ubuntu

[wolf at wolfhalton.info]

That's good news.
My attempts led to circular dependencies and hours of manual deletions
that didn't work.
Wolf

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] Losing Ubuntu
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:09:52 -0400

speaking of fedora version upgrades: I recently upgraded a laptop
running Fedora 11 straight to Fedora 13 using only the yum pre-upgrade
process with a wired connection to the Internet (instructions were
clear: Don't do this over wireless!). Happy to report it was a clean
process and a total success - no user data loss and all system
functionality retained. Only post upgrade was to reinstall the libdvdcss
from Livna and run a post-upgrade yum update to capture the latest
packages from rpmfusion. I was quite surprised and very happy to see
this (finally) working properly.

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:46 PM, wolf at wolfhalton.info
<wolf at wolfhalton.info> wrote: 

        
        
        > >> Ubuntu is to Debian as RHEL is to Fedora (except RHEL
        works)
        
        Ubuntu is to Debian as Fedora is to RHEL.. sort of.  
        Except Ubuntu is not an experimental release to test stuff out
        for Debian 
        as Fedora is to RHEL. 
        ---------------------------------
        People tend to get to like what they want to use.  Or maybe it
        is people are more comfortable with distros of which they can
        predict behaviour.
        I disliked S.U.S.E. when all I was running was old hardware, and
        the S.U.S.E. version I had only came on a DVD when I didn't have
        a DVD drive.
        I may like it more, now that I have some newer hardware to play
        with.  
        The first Fedora I messed with was the very buggy Fedora Core 4.
        Fedora doesn't version-upgrade well over the Internet,  so
        Ubuntu has been my first choice for about 5 years.
        
        -Wolf
        
        PS, Good luck with Debian, it should be fun!
        
        
        
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