[Cialug] Tracking the Ubuntu beta distribution

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 10:11 -0600, Laith Preston wrote:
> I agree with the others it shouldn't give much trouble with upgrading. 
> as far as the package management would be concerned it is no different 
> than just having not checked for updates to your current version for a 
> while, if you keep up with current BETA than when it goes gold you 
> should be fairly in sync.
> 
> Lathrop
> 
> Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> > My question is, if i install the beta version of 7.04, is it like Debian 
> > Testing where i can just use aptitude to update to the final release 
> > version without any serious issues? If so i think i'll go ahead and do 
> > that, but if updating to the final version will be a problem then i'll 
> > just wait a couple months until 7.04 is actually released.

Having gone through this route with Dapper --> Edgy, and planning on
upgrading to Feisty when beta comes out, the one trick I've picked up is
to try and create a separate /home filesystem. This makes it much easier
to install from scratch if you need to.
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