Re: etch --> testing

2008-01-23 Thread joseph lockhart
> I thought that at one point (in the past, when I was > paying a little more attention) that a certain > ubuntu release might be better > installed as a clean reinstall (rather than trying > to upgrade from a previous release). Hearing that > (or thinking I heard that), > I simply extrapolated

Re: etch --> testing

2008-01-23 Thread Lesley Binks
On 22/01/2008, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An associate is not quite as avid a linux user as I am (though he's been at > it at least as long). He's got a machine that's > running etch that he uses as a general all-purpose workstation desktop > (gnome, icedove, iceweasel, ooo, emacs

Re: etch --> testing

2008-01-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
charlie derr wrote: SNIP He actually has a second machine (laptop) with ubuntu on it (an attempt to switch distros in the past). Since I'm not nearly as proficient with untangling ubuntu problems as I am with understanding debian, I don't think that it really makes sense (in the past there w

Re: etch --> testing

2008-01-22 Thread charlie derr
steve wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 charlie derr wrote: | |> |> I went the Ubuntu route a couple of years ago. It's fun until you do a |> routine update and everything breaks. ? Ive used it on this laptop for almost 3 years, and never had a problem with anything breaking

Re: etch --> testing

2008-01-22 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 charlie derr wrote: | |> |> I went the Ubuntu route a couple of years ago. It's fun until you do a |> routine update and everything breaks. ? Ive used it on this laptop for almost 3 years, and never had a problem with anything breaking. you use som

Re: etch --> testing

2008-01-22 Thread charlie derr
Rick Dooling wrote: On Jan 21, 7:20 pm, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: He's really eager to upgrade from etch to something newer. You didn't say why? Is there a particular program he craves a newer version of? Most of them :-[ It looked to me like icedove 2.0.0.9-3 is available i

Re: etch --> testing

2008-01-21 Thread Rick Dooling
On Jan 21, 7:20 pm, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > He's really eager to upgrade from etch to something newer. You didn't say why? Is there a particular program he craves a newer version of? I went the Ubuntu route a couple of years ago. It's fun until you do a routine update and every

Re: etch --> testing

2008-01-21 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 charlie derr wrote: | An associate is not quite as avid a linux user as I am (though he's been | at it at least as long). He's got a machine that's running etch that he | uses as a general all-purpose workstation desktop (gnome, icedove, | iceweasel,

Re: etch --> testing

2008-01-21 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
charlie derr wrote: An associate is not quite as avid a linux user as I am (though he's been at it at least as long). He's got a machine that's running etch that he uses as a general all-purpose workstation desktop (gnome, icedove, iceweasel, ooo, emacs, cups, and a bunch more often-used apps)