I read on Facebook, "Linuxlite Re-install. We won't have an upgrade path until we become a more mature, established distro. This could be 2 or 3 versions away"
I appreciate all the volunteer work required for LL but could someone explain to a newby what it means why LL won't have an upgrade path for a while? ???
Our development team is to small at the moment to handle the work load in their free time. Our current focus of writing easy to use applications and good documentation takes priority. We are a very young distro in 'linux time'.
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What you wrote is the part I appreciate and understand. Can you explain in newby terms what has to be done for an "upgrade path"?
It would be sensible to offer that closer to the time.
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Hello!
If I'm being redundant, forgive me...
Since LL 1.0.x has a long support cycle, upgrading is not that big of a deal at the moment anyway. With the six-month support of the other distros, there's just not time to actually fix much. A longer support cycle is better - there's more focus on bug-swatting and less on how to bloat the next version even more than the current version already is.
I'm sure no one @ LL is able to work full-time on it, which makes it that much more imperative that those who have the knowledge to help these guys out should do so. The folks @ Canonical are funded by deep pockets, and have at least SOME paid staff.
When I WAS upgrading every six months, I always did a clean install anyway. Something ALWAYS gets lost in the shuffle when upgrading. It's usually just plain better to 'nuke it and start over'...
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Rob
(03-18-2014, 12:21 AM)N4RPS link Wrote: [ -> ]When I WAS upgrading every six months, I always did a clean install anyway. Something ALWAYS gets lost in the shuffle when upgrading. It's usually just plain better to 'nuke it and start over'...
Agree completely with this! Too many potential problems doing an in-place "upgrade". Would guess that majority of people do fresh installs vs. upgrades for that reason and because it can actually be quicker. Some older, established Linux distros also don't offer an "upgrade" path due to the potential complications (CentOS being one example, I believe) -- so "no upgrade choice" is not just limited to newer distros. (Personally, I'd never use it even if it were a choice in LL.)
I had a good idea for how to upgrade. Linux Mint has a tool that will backup your software packages and you can then reinstall them. Could save lots of work and they are readily available from their sight.
That is why I really adore 'rolling distro's. I have PCLOS and Linux Mint Debian Edition on partitions.
And that is very nice and no worry for as long as it goes right...
