[nflug] Ubuntu 8.10...

[Joseph M. LaVigne]

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 :)
>                         
>                          
>                 
>                 _______________________________________________
>                 nflug mailing list
>                 nflug at nflug.org
>                 http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug
>         _______________________________________________
>         nflug mailing list
>         nflug at nflug.org
>         http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug
>         
> 
> _______________________________________________
> nflug mailing list
> nflug at nflug.org
> http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug