On 5/12/20 7:40 AM, stan via users wrote:
On Tue, 12 May 2020 19:49:41 +0800
Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<rant>
I have a issue in the way words are used in the "Fedora Project". I
think my issue stems from my days as a hardware engineer.
It seems that the words "upgrade" and "update" are used
interchangeably. I personally don't see it that way. To me "update"
means to apply changes to the current "release" release. While
"upgrade" means to go from one release to a newer release. <\rant>
I agree. I think this would be the common interpretation for native
speakers of English, though I certainly don't know that for sure. It
has always bothered me, like a small grain of sand in my shoe while I'm
walking.
In the ubuntu universe "update" means to refresh the list of repos while
"upgrade" means to bring the current release up to date. To move to the
next release version is to "do-release-upgrade".
update and up to date could certainly be confused, especially by a
non-native speaker :/
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