Thanks. That makes sense. Didn't understand why one would reinstall Linux for completely utilitarian purposes. Sounded like Windows-thinking to me. But if you're doing a lot of tinkering then I can see it. I've had the same install of Gentoo on one of my computers for about 5 or 6 years. I just upgrade the packages and configs once in a while. I wondered if Ubuntu worked differently.<br>
<br>Josh<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Joseph M. LaVigne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@hits-buffalo.com">joe@hits-buffalo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It sure does. Some people (myself included) prefer to do clean installs<br>
instead of upgrades, but the option is there. And a lot of people<br>
download the disc because they might not have the bandwith to do the<br>
upgrade online (which could take a long time, depending on your<br>
connection speed).<br>
<br>
I have done dist upgrades through the update manager, and it works fine,<br>
but I tinker a LOT, and have many things installed that may not come<br>
with the distribution, so I keep a separate /home partition and do a<br>
fresh install, then install my apps...<br>
<br>
<br>
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 13:33 -0400, Joshua Johnson wrote:<br>
> I haven't been using Ubuntu that long so this may be a noob question:<br>
> Doesn't the "package manager" give a way to upgrade to the newest<br>
> version (8.10, in this case) of Ubuntu?<br>
><br>
> -Josh<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Cyber Source<br>
> <<a href="mailto:peter@thecybersource.com">peter@thecybersource.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I just now upgrade to the heron, ya know, shoe maker story and<br>
> all. I have made it a point recently NOT to re-distribute or<br>
> install as our "dump" unless it's an LTS release cause when<br>
> the repos stop working, it's not a good thing.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Eric Benoit wrote:<br>
> Rob are you going to upgrade or fresh install? Let us<br>
> know how either goes :)<br>
><br>
> Robert Wolfe wrote:<br>
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:39:47 -0400<br>
> Ken Smith <<a href="mailto:kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU">kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
><br>
> If you're among the many who will be<br>
> looking to download Ubuntu 8.10<br>
> today... I added that to what we<br>
> mirror through the past few days. At<br>
> this point I don't have enough disk<br>
> space to carry their entire archive<br>
> but I was able to manage carrying just<br>
> their release stuff.<br>
><br>
> <a href="ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/ubuntu-releases/" target="_blank">ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/ubuntu-releases/</a><br>
><br>
> JFYI... :-)<br>
><br>
><br>
> Too late! :) Already downloaded mine as soon<br>
> as the home page was updated :)<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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