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:ZDNet Australia: Debian Upgrade May 'Break' Systems
ZDNet Australia: Debian Upgrade May 'Break' Systems
Jun 10, 2005, 14 :30 UTC (10 Talkback[s]) (6371 reads)

(Other stories by Renai LeMay)

[ Thanks to daria42 for this link. ]

"A Debian developer has warned around 30 percent of users upgrading to the new version of his project's Linux distribution would seriously disrupt their systems in the process.

"'I expect around 30 percent of users will suffer serious breakage that could have been avoided,' wrote Debian developer Bill Allombert in an e-mail warning to the community. He said he was personally not satisfied with the state of the upgrade process to version 3.1, which was released earlier this week..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
Again no details of what in the upgrade  ...   No details, noting to note   
Dave Jablonski
Jun 10, 2005, 15:30:14
 
Right now we're in the process of ro ...   Upgrade Issues   
Eddie
Jun 10, 2005, 16:03:18
 
No problems what-so-ever. What, specific ...   I've upgraded 6 machines.   
Brandioch Conner
Jun 10, 2005, 16:04:10
 
In a previous article LeMay mis-stated t ...   Am I seeing a trend? Flame-baiting....?   
GreyGeek
Jun 10, 2005, 16:44:33
 
> Again no details of what in the upgrad ...   Re: No details, noting to note   
Rainer Weikusat
Jun 10, 2005, 16:59:01
 
> Sorry for defending ZD-NET, but this a ...   Re: Re: No details, noting to note   
no debian developer
Jun 10, 2005, 17:41:13
 
Not just a "trend", either. It's a f ...   re: Am I seeing a trend? - YES!!!   
Brandioch Conner
Jun 10, 2005, 18:00:09
 
Especially from ZdNet  ...   lots of FUDders from Australia   
Raymond Lai
Jun 10, 2005, 23:05:26
 
As one of the people who have actually p ...   Re Debian upgrade ...   
Andy Cater
Jun 11, 2005, 07:29:04
 
In my dictionary, opinionated means, "Ob ...   Opinionated, eh?   
Peter
Jun 11, 2005, 09:01:00
 
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