On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 06:28:42PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
I rarely use Ubuntu so I'm late to observing some things.
I just updated a 20.04 LTS system to a 22.04 LTS system.
I did it via a command line (through SSH). There were several warnings about SSH being dangerous because communications could be lost when problems arose. SSH is my normal way of communicating with headless machines so I thought that this was a bit unfortunate. It turned out that I didn't have a problem.
The installer informed me that ThunderBird would be provided via SNAP and that there is no other form. I don't like SNAPs but I probably wouldn't even have noticed if the installer didn't tell me. I wonder how many other SNAPs are installed. I think that I can ask the system but I've got other fish to fry at the moment.
The upgrade seems to have worked rather painlessly. I'm used to Fedora version updates where only updates of a year are promised to work. This Ubuntu update was a two year update: a nice technical achievement.
So when Ubuntu has upgrades every two years that work, it's a nice technical achievement but when Debian's releases are two years apart, they are moving too slow? :) Of course in Debian's case it would be shocking if the upgrade didn't work. Why wouldn't it? They have been doing working in place upgrades for close to 25 years after all. I did see that the Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS release was delayed quite a bit, because apparently they broke the dependency resolver in apt by making a change Debian didn't want to accept. I believe the final fix was to revert it back to the original design. -- Len Sorensen