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On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 02:23:56PM +0100, Ben Goodger wrote:
> On 4/15/07, Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >Do Ubuntu users have to update their entire distro from a CD / iso
> >image or can you migrate to the latest Ubuntu with 'apt-get update ;
> >apt-get dist-upgrade' as you can in Debian? (I don't see why this
> >shouldn't work in Ubuntu.)
>
>
> Inexplicably, the Ubuntu people now discourage people from doing this, and
> steer people toward their auto-updater instead.
> Personally, I think that this is because Ubuntu's upgrade path is now so
> broken that libapt is no longer capable of handling it...
> God knows what you do if you're on a CLI. (Probably you moved to debian
> already, so you're in the clear...)
This would be understandable, maybe, if it wasn't for the fact that
nowadays they seem to be promoting themselves as a server OS as well. Or
are you expected to install Gnome on a server?
bma
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