On 5/11/2011 3:18 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 01:51:08 PM Les Mikesell wrote:
I've always been a fan of the coordination they have among the additional repositories that is lacking in yum/rpm equivalents and was impressed when my 9.0.4 installs painlessly upgraded themselves to 10.0.4.
You must not have many PPA's enabled. And you must not use PostgreSQL, which won't painlessly upgrade on anything.....
Automatically doing the dump/load (and magically finding the space for it) for version changes that need it would be a lot to ask.
Admittedly, not as many locally configured apps as on my Centos boxes, but it all still seemed to be working after the major-version over-the-network upgrade.
I've had the opposite experience with several clients, using Ubuntu as a desktop, not a server. I've had a few issues with servers, too.
With the LTS versions? One of mine was a laptop where centos didn't see the wifi adapter and I had it set up to either dual boot or run under vmware player. And I was surprised that after doing the update under vmware it still came up fine when booted natively and only asked to reconfigure the X setup.