easy to upgrade OS (was Re: DVCS)

[retard]

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:58:59 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:

> 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.

Don't blame Ubuntu, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Sunbird

"It was developed as a standalone version of the Lightning calendar and 
scheduling extension for Mozilla Thunderbird. Development of Sunbird was 
ended with release 1.0 beta 1 to focus on development of Mozilla 
Lightning.[6][7]"

Ubuntu doesn't drop support for widely used software. I'd use Google's 
Calendar instead.