Fwd: Re: [Wolves] Question 1st, Rant 2nd

[Adam Sweet]

--- Peter Cannon <peter at cannon-linux.co.uk> wrote:

> > Subject: Re: [Wolves] Question 1st, Rant 2nd
> > Date: Thursday 15 June 2006 22:36
> > From: Adam Sweet <drinky76 at yahoo.com>
> > To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group
> <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> >
> > System > About Ubuntu. I was going to tell you to
> cat
> > /etc/ubuntu_version or something similar but I
> only
> > have an /etc/debian_version which says
> > testing/unstable.
> >
> >To upgrade, run the following command:
> 
> > gksudo update-manager -d
> 
> May sound dim but I edited the sources.list apart
> from the title (Which may 
> not matter) then did sudo apt-get -dist-upgrade as
> the sources.list is still 
> titled Breezy it threw me for a bit, so whats this
> gksudo? thats a new one on 
> me.

It was a new one on me and I can't find the blog post
now, it was on Planet Ubuntu a few weeks back.

> > A straight install is cleaner however. 
> 
> Yeah I suppose I ought to download it or order it
> one of the two mind you as I 
> have the breezy cd its just as quick to upgrade
> that.
> 
> > Also, I think my upgrade download totalled about
> 1GB
> > (I have a lot sof stuff installed on this well
> > travelled PC), whereas the new is about 600MB, so
> it
> > depends on how much stuff you want to hang on to.
> 
> To be honest its more a backup system than anything
> else by that I mean 
> something to use quickly and instead of my two main
> systems. I'm really 
> trying hard not to use it too much as I too could
> get hooked on Ubuntu.
> 
> As I've said before I've changed my mind about
> Ubuntu but I just don't have 
> the time to learn all the ins and outs of my two
> main systems let alone a 
> whole new one.

Fear not my friend your logic seems reasonable to me
:)

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