Re: [clug-talk] System upgrades amd the like

2014-02-21 Thread Jerry Rukavina
Shawn, not everyone on this list is a propeller head, I am an average user. I am trying to learn but it is a bitch...I must be too dumb to understand. It is frustrating when things break or don't work at all and then having to spend a ton of time trying to figure out the problems. Sometimes,

Re: [clug-talk] System upgrades amd the like

2014-02-21 Thread Mel Walters
Talk about a failure to communicate! I am wondering about my skills now you see? My original question was related to keeping a system up to date with minor updates, not a major Debian upgrade like say Debian 6 to Debian 7. Again, starting with Debian (the latest stable) that is working and up to da

Re: [clug-talk] System upgrades amd the like

2014-02-21 Thread Zander Robertson
You can't go wrong with Ubuntu LTS. I got my wife of Mac onto it and no problems. Updating is fine, I have done the distribution upgrade twice now and it is very smooth. I only wish I could say the same for fedora! I get more problems with windows that I do with Ubuntu and when I cause an issue the