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.....
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.
Timely updating takes effort; either I pay with money for upstream's binaries or I pay with time for either upstream's source RPMs (which can be delayed) or a rebuild's binaries. Or I pay with transition cost to a different distribution. Those are the choices. TANSTAAFL.