easy to upgrade OS (was Re: DVCS)

spir denis.spir at gmail.com
Sat Jan 22 01:57:56 PST 2011


On 01/22/2011 09:58 AM, 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.

Same in my experience. I had to recently re-install from scratch my 
ubuntu box recently (recently why I have the same amusing info as Walter 
telling my machine runs ubuntu 11.04?) because 10.04 --> 10.10 upgrade 
miserably crashed (at the end of the procedure, indeed).

And no, this is not due to me naughtily the system; instead while 
userland is highly personalised I do not touch the rest (mainly my brain 
cannot cope with the standard unix filesystem hierarchy).

(I use linux only for philosophical reasons, else would happily switch 
to mac.)

Denis
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