dist-upgrade -- Any Improvements?
 

I have heard nothing but bad things about using dist-upgrade in Ubuntu to update to a new release-- lots of bugs, and so on. Has anyone had more success recently (e.g. Lucid to Maverick)

I can not argue with that. Same thing here but I will tell you one thing if you go from one LTS to another it is much smoother because the team has configured it that way.
That said I have upgraded slackware all the way from 10.2 to 13.1 and never had any major issues because there is a upgrade txt that prepares you for the simple upgrade. Never did I say one was better than the other. I said it was easier for me. the last three major none LTS upgrade flopped and failed bad spent a lot of time on it.

I am thinking of holding onto Lucid until the next LTS. Maverick didn't offer too many new features and the future seems a little-- I don't know-- "unstable" at the moment, with Unity and Wayland and all. :)

I would simply maintain a separate /home and do a fresh install over that, but doing this from one LTS to another concerns me somewhat in terms of compatibility.

maverick does have a 10.10 LTS it is an option I noticed that when I started testing the latest stuff. talk about breaking everything but that is part of it if you are going to stay on top. turst me if it aint broke and it is the system you have to have running do not mess with it lol

I currently have "LTS Releases Only" checked in Update Manager. I guess whether or not I decide to avoid potentially screwing my Ubuntu with a dist-upgrade depends on how people like 11.04. And considering Ubuntu is ditching GNOME for Unity, I may decide that Natty isn't my cup of tea.

Of course, I could always install Unity in Lucid when it becomes more... stable.

Open to suggestion? Use Clonezilla and back up system when it is as desired and before making any potentially damaging changes; I do this on a 500GB external USB hdd with enclosure and it has been a salvation many times.

Also, install aptitude and open it as root for a GUI that lets one pick and choose. There is a console locking software available from hacktolove -- add SuperOS repo to /etc/apt/sources.list.

Beat wishes!

Can you pleaso show where you found this information? I have searched the web, but found nothing.

Hm, didn't think of Clonezilla. I will fiddle around with it later and see what I think.

sorry seems I miss read it is 10.04 LTS it is 10.10 LTS server Ubuntu-1010-LTS-Maverick-Meerkat-Server
11.04 will be out some time.

Are you my evil twin?

You didn't even copy my whole post. Come on-- if you're going to troll, at least pretend to try.

To help with your fiddling, here is a very good recent tutorial on using Clonezilla:
http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials...aster-recovery
For what it's worth, I always do clean installs of Ubuntu instead of dist-upgrades. This is the best way to avoid problems imo.

I upgraded 2 of my machines from 10.04 --> 10.10. They both went through, and they both work fine. The one did have some oddities that it took me a while to figure out (phantom "box" on the desktop, kmix refusing to hold settinngs), but got everything sorted now.