[PLUG] Ubuntu Updating

[William Olson]

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> Message: 7 Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:58:49 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael" 
> <michael at jamhome.us> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Jaunty upgrade To: "General 
> Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" 
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> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 John Jason Jordan wrote:
>> > Don't.
>> >
>> > OK, I have never used KDE before. But I am now poking at it because it's all I
>> > can get working. Maybe y'all KDE dudes and dudettes can convince me to keep
>> > it. If Gnome won't run, to hell with it, eh?
>> >
>> > Meantime, the dist-upgrade to Jaunty is a pile of problems. I recommend y'all
>> > hold off.
>>     
>
> Gee, I was just about to update Gutted Gutsy to Handy Hardy[1].  LTS is good
> there for another two or four years, desktop and server.
>
> Thanks for being our bleeding edge.
>
> You mean to say the obvious benefits of KDE aren't winning you over yet?   :) 
>
>
> [1]  I was distracted by other things and missed the EOL, last Saturday, for
> Gutsy.  Not only did they cease providing new patches, the repositories are
> offline preventing me from installing stuff that was current 10 days ago.
>   

I've also missed the EOL for Gutsy.   Is there anything I can do other 
than a clean install of 8.10 or 9.04?

> -- Michael Rasmussen http://www.jamhome.us/ Be Appropriate && Follow 
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