easy to upgrade OS (was Re: DVCS)

[Walter Bright]

Gour wrote:
> I'm very seriously considering to put PC-BSD on my desktop and of
> several others in order to reduce my admin-time required to maint. all
> those machines.

OSX is the only OS (besides DOS) I've had that had painless upgrades. Windows 
upgrades never ever work in place (at least not for me). You have to wipe the 
disk, install from scratch, then reinstall all your apps and reconfigure them.

You're hosed if you lose an install disk or the serial # for it.

Ubuntu isn't much better, but at least you don't have to worry about install 
disks and serial numbers. I just keep a list of sudo apt-get commands! That 
works pretty good until the Ubuntu gods just decide to drop kick your apps (like 
sunbird) out of the repository.