For microsoft perhaps, but Ubuntu, Debian ? Upgrading from a release to the next is trivial, and in general work well. Sure, probably the update to the core system component is more light, no Usrmove, no systemd, or something like this. And preserving, updating the new configuration based on the previous really is not so simple. But this problem today is really well solved if you use a good configuration manager, but this is not applicable for a general end user, i think. Best and sorry for the top posting. 2012/11/4, Simo Sorce <simo@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 00:36 +0100, Michał Piotrowski wrote: >> Hi, >> >> 2012/11/3 Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> > Note >> > that neither Red Hat nor Microsoft actually support major version >> > upgrades for their operating systems > > Adam, this is plainly untrue for Microsoft, they always supported > upgrading to the next version. > >> Just take a look at this - MS rocks here >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14 > > However keep in mind, that in MS case the OS, is *a lot* smaller than > what we have. > They do not give any guarantee that third party apps will keep working > although they *do* do their damn best to make sure they don't break most > important stuff. (By simply not changing interfaces, ABIs, or adding > compatibility libraries in the system). > > Simo. > > -- > Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- Inviato dal mio dispositivo mobile -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
