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Re: Upgrade across releases
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2018, 02:19:19 AM »
 

Amit Gholap

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Thx very much for the infos.
Since Ubuntu itself supports upgrades across releases or LTS, I was hoping that even Ubuntu derivatives like LL will support it. I guess I dont have enough knowledge about Linux to understand why Ubuntu can, but Ubuntu derivatives cannot.

Rgds,
Amit
 

Re: Upgrade across releases
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2018, 10:50:28 PM »
 

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Re: Upgrade across releases
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2018, 02:47:04 PM »
 

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Quite simply put for Ubuntu based distros, sudo do-release-upgrade has a high failure rate and is an extremely complex process that requires specific intervention for each pc. I doubt there's a dev in existence who would dare take on the task of writing GUI software for this process. You could pay me $10k and I still wouldn't do it.

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Re: Upgrade across releases
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2018, 10:49:21 PM »
 

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Quite simply put for Ubuntu based distros, sudo do-release-upgrade has a high failure rate and is an extremely complex process that requires specific intervention for each pc. I doubt there's a dev in existence who would dare take on the task of writing GUI software for this process. You could pay me $10k and I still wouldn't do it.
 

Upgrade across releases
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2018, 11:01:26 AM »
 

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Hello All

It is known that Lite does not upgrade from 3.x to 4 and so on.
To have a better understanding on why so many distros cannot upgrade across major versions, could Lite devs or someone explain why such release upgrades are difficult or impossible?

Thx
-A
 

 

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