D 1.076 and 2.061 release

[Russel Winder]

On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 10:51 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
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> I've been avoiding upgrading Ubuntu, because the last time I did that the 
> installer trashed everything. Lost a day on that one.

Just because it happened once doesn't mean it will always happen.

Until I abandoned all use of Ubuntu, I had never had an upgrade crash
that didn't correct itself on appropriate rerun. You are the only person
I know that had a total trashing due to installer fail.

Reinstalling from scratch does not take a whole day. 2 hours maybe.

> P.S. The Mac is the only machine I've ever been able to upgrade the operating 
> system on that worked without trashing everything and forcing a reinstall from 
> scratch.

I have the opposite experience, Apple hardware seems incapable of
upgrading operating systems.  Their policy seems to be "you want a new
operating system, then buy a new piece of hardware from the store."

-- 
Russel.
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