easy to upgrade OS (was Re: DVCS)

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 22.01.2011 13:21, schrieb 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.

Ubuntu doesn't include Lightning, either.

Walter: You could add the lightning plugin to your thunderbird from the 
mozilla page: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/index.html
Hopefully it automatically imports your sunbird data or is at least able 
to import it manually.