pbcoll wrote:
...gutsy gibbon...
Is that this week's official release?
I ask, because a friend has just accepted it as an upgrade, and went through a bit of a nightmare before getting to a system that worked, but has now abandoned that in favour of a clean install to a new partition, which is no big deal under Linux, of course.
I'm wondering whether to bother risking an upgrade to 7.10, from 7.04, given that I upgraded to there from 6.10, and that wasn't plain sailing either! I might just go for the clean install.
On the other hand, my uptime on this machine is now 15 days, 9 hours, so it would be amusing to see if I can upgrade from Feisty Fawn (which was itself an in-place upgrade from Dapper Drake) to Gutsy Gibbon without a reboot (I'm assuming the kernel remains at 2.6.20-16?).
(Think along the lines of upgrading from Windows 95 to Windows XP to Windows Vista, without a reboot - indeed, without breaking off from watching a movie on YouTube, while editing a letter to Bill Gates and playing solitaire.)
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