On 04/25/2011 03:14 PM, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
> On 04/21/2011 03:14 AM, David Sanders wrote:
>> Hello List,
>>
>> I'm just returning to Debian after a long absence over in Ubuntu land.
>> The upcoming train-crash that is the Unity UI, and some over-political
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> I personally woul
On 04/21/2011 03:14 AM, David Sanders wrote:
Hello List,
I'm just returning to Debian after a long absence over in Ubuntu land.
The upcoming train-crash that is the Unity UI, and some over-political
decision making in the community has led me to jump back to a more
sensible and technology-led di
On 23/04/11 05:24, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote:
George Standish said:
Ubuntu regularly has issues upgrading from one version to another, now
you expect it to "upgrade" to a new distro... This idea doesn't seem
like a good idea to me.
-
I agree with this assessment though any ubuntu
On Jo, 21 apr 11, 11:55:05, George Standish wrote:
> On 21/04/11 06:14 AM, David Sanders wrote:
>
> >So, a small question - How suicidal is crossgrading back to Debian by
> >altering my APT sources?
>
> I was interested if this had any chance of working, so I tried in a
> VM to go from Ubuntu 10.
On 23 April 2011 04:24, wrote:
> George Standish said:
>
>
> Ubuntu regularly has issues upgrading from one version to another, now
> you expect it to "upgrade" to a new distro... This idea doesn't seem
> like a good idea to me.
>
In fairness to Ubuntu, I've been dist-upgrading since 8.10, and t
George Standish said:
Ubuntu regularly has issues upgrading from one version to another, now
you expect it to "upgrade" to a new distro... This idea doesn't seem
like a good idea to me.
-
I agree with this assessment though any ubuntu head will challenge any
statement like this with such
On 21/04/11 12:04 PM, shawn wilson wrote:
if you still have that vm up
:( No sorry, I've deleted it already. I couldn't even boot up the
system in recovery mode.
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On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:55 AM, George Standish
wrote:
> On 21/04/11 06:14 AM, David Sanders wrote:
>
>> So, a small question - How suicidal is crossgrading back to Debian by
>> altering my APT sources?
>
> I was interested if this had any chance of working, so
On 21/04/11 06:14 AM, David Sanders wrote:
So, a small question - How suicidal is crossgrading back to Debian by
altering my APT sources?
I was interested if this had any chance of working, so I tried in a VM
to go from Ubuntu 10.10 to Squeeze. I failed miserably (possibly due to
user error
On 21/04/11 06:14 AM, David Sanders wrote:
The upcoming train-crash that is the Unity UI, and some over-political
decision making in the community has led me to jump back to a more
sensible and technology-led distro..
Unity is what brought me to Debian. Recent Canonical decisions only
encour
> Really I think you'll have to bite the bullet and take it as it comes. But
> I'm not an expert by any means
That appears to be the case :-)
You may hear my screams on the list later today!
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David Sanders said:
So, a small question - How suicidal is crossgrading back to Debian by
altering my APT sources? I've seen a few blogs saying it works, and I
do have a lot of customised stuff on my main laptop which I'd prefer
not to have to recompile. I'm pretty technically-adept and don't mind
Hello List,
I'm just returning to Debian after a long absence over in Ubuntu land.
The upcoming train-crash that is the Unity UI, and some over-political
decision making in the community has led me to jump back to a more
sensible and technology-led distro where, I hope, one man's pride
isn't going
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