[nflug] Ubuntu 8.10...

[Joshua Johnson]

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.

Josh

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Joseph M. LaVigne <joe at hits-buffalo.com>wrote:

> It sure does.  Some people (myself included) prefer to do clean installs
> instead of upgrades, but the option is there.  And a lot of people
> download the disc because they might not have the bandwith to do the
> upgrade online (which could take a long time, depending on your
> connection speed).
>
> I have done dist upgrades through the update manager, and it works fine,
> but I tinker a LOT, and have many things installed that may not come
> with the distribution, so I keep a separate /home partition and do a
> fresh install, then install my apps...
>
>
> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 13:33 -0400, Joshua Johnson wrote:
> > I haven't been using Ubuntu that long so this may be a noob question:
> > Doesn't the "package manager" give a way to upgrade to the newest
> > version (8.10, in this case) of Ubuntu?
> >
> > -Josh
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Cyber Source
> > <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> >         I just now upgrade to the heron, ya know, shoe maker story and
> >         all. I have made it a point recently NOT to re-distribute or
> >         install as our "dump" unless it's an LTS release cause when
> >         the repos stop working, it's not a good thing.
> >
> >
> >
> >         Eric Benoit wrote:
> >                 Rob are you going to upgrade or fresh install?  Let us
> >                 know how either goes :)
> >
> >                 Robert Wolfe wrote:
> >                         On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:39:47 -0400
> >                         Ken Smith <kensmith at cse.Buffalo.EDU> wrote:
> >
> >
> >                                 If you're among the many who will be
> >                                 looking to download Ubuntu 8.10
> >                                 today...  I added that to what we
> >                                 mirror through the past few days.  At
> >                                 this point I don't have enough disk
> >                                 space to carry their entire archive
> >                                 but I was able to manage carrying just
> >                                 their release stuff.
> >
> >
> ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/ubuntu-releases/
> >
> >                                 JFYI... :-)
> >
> >
> >                         Too late! :)  Already downloaded mine as soon
> >                         as the home page was updated :)
> >
> >
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