**Shellman the Tortoise 🐢** @skalman@mastodon.acc.umu.se · Jun 30, 2018, 09:48

**Shellman the Tortoise 🐢** @skalman@mastodon.acc.umu.se · Jun 30, 2018, 09:48

Shellman the Tortoise 🐢 @skalman@mastodon.acc.umu.se

Upgrading #Ubuntu #Linux from 16.04 to 18.04.

I'm sure I'm going to regret I didn't do a clean install right away.

**saper** @saper · Jun 30, 2018, 10:11

**saper** @saper · Jun 30, 2018, 10:11

@skalman Give up Linux, there is life out there!

**Shellman the Tortoise 🐢** @skalman@mastodon.acc.umu.se · Jun 30, 2018, 10:13

**Shellman the Tortoise 🐢** @skalman@mastodon.acc.umu.se · Jun 30, 2018, 10:13

@saper Oh, you suggest I should switch to #BSD? The devil you know…

**saper** @saper · 2018-06-30T10:51:07Z

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@skalman #BSD has its troubles (esp if you want a fancy personal computing) but I think I have installed it only two or three times to start clean since 1990s.. It was always migration of the same file system from the old disk to the new disk. Last time I installed new ones was because of geli and zfs and also I got a smaller SSD so not all could fit. Still have all those old UFS hard drives! And it is a rolling update all the time, version to version, laptop to laptop...

Jun 30, 2018, 10:51 · Amaroq · 0 · 0

**Shellman the Tortoise 🐢** @skalman@mastodon.acc.umu.se · Jun 30, 2018, 11:50

**Shellman the Tortoise 🐢** @skalman@mastodon.acc.umu.se · Jun 30, 2018, 11:50

@saper That's almost unbelievable. But I used to work with #SunOS and #Solaris. Rarely any upgrade problems there either

**saper** @saper · Jun 30, 2018, 16:03

**saper** @saper · Jun 30, 2018, 16:03

@skalman They maintain a very high level of compatibility. There are even kits to run binaries from ancient versions. Also you can run ancient versions in jails on a modern kernel.