On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Arnold Krille <arnold@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
> While I do encounter the odd failure in updates every now and then, the
> number
> of catastrophic failures (possibly resulting in data-loss) has been zero
> with
> SuSE, Gentoo and ubuntu (*). The hours spent getting watching one system to
> upgrade while working with another where much better used then the hours
> spent
> setting up a new system with all the small quirks and settings to re-create
> my
> needed working environment.
>
You didn't mention Fedora. I speak from experience, particularly from
upgrading FC8, and by "catastophic" I mean a failure that forces you to
scrap all efforts to complete the upgrade process and resort to a clean
installation. Usually the failure happens after you've wasted a
significant amount of time and is so frustrating that you will swear off
ever upgrading a Fedora release again especially if it is for more than 2
major releases. FC8 has been end of life for 2 years and a lot has changed
since then so expect problems.
--Steve
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