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Posted Mar 26, 2008 2:37 UTC (Wed) by pr1268 (guest, #24648)
In reply to: Or... (veering off-topic) by ArbitraryConstant
Parent article: Ubuntu 6.10 reaches end-of-life on April 26, 2008

Actually, I have /home on a separate disk, too. But, a separate file system on the same disk would work as well.

Good job to Ubuntu for making a distro upgrade/migration less painful.

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Posted Mar 26, 2008 6:29 UTC (Wed) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (1 responses)

> Good job to Ubuntu for making a distro upgrade/migration less painful.


Actually you can thank Debian for that little nugget. The majority of software in those
repositories for what people call 'Ubuntu' is really a snapshot of Debian Sid.  It's Debian's
'hardcore'-ness with things like adherence to package quality and rules is what makes apt-get
upgrade work. Nothing particularly magical with apt-get or deb format that allows for it..
it's all in those packages and the man-hours put into making them work. Upgrades from one
Debian version to another have been, in my experience, better then anything Ubuntu has done.
But only by a margin; Ubuntu itself is generally easier then any other OS I've used.

What the remarkable thing Ubuntu has done is made Debian itself less painful. :)

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Posted Mar 26, 2008 7:52 UTC (Wed) by danielhedblom (guest, #47307) [Link]

And even more offtopic. I suspect some distros problems with package management is more of a
package building problem than the package format itself. 

I have been using /home on another disk for ages now. It saves time when changing distro or
trying out a new one.