How to regularly Install Linux without Headache ??

[Neo]

hi
i have reading few articles in fedora forum and also i found it written many other places also that its always better to reinstall linux than to upgrade a new version

so linux is out every 6 months

isnt it very difficult to manage ur data, backup and again reinstall all ur programs

is there any solution to this

[hellnoire]

You are aware that different programs work different ways?

With Ubuntu, you get about a year and a half, two years of patches between releases, unless it's a LTS, in which case, it's more like three or four.

Fedora and other OSes should be the same.

Backing up data isn't that hard if you have an external hard drive or a flash drive. Reinstalling... while pain in the butt, you can write scripts to deal with that...

It's like updating Windows from Vista to 7 or as some put it, a reinstall of Windows. There are ways to make it quicker... but it's really not that much of a PITA.

And if you need online backups, it IS available too...

[LizardMan]

Watch this video and see how easy it is:

[johnshaw1917]

Reinstalling... while pain in the butt, you can write scripts to deal with that...

Yeah I could, if I knew how!

[hellnoire]

Yeah I could, if I knew how!

You know how to write out the command line installs? like 'sudo apt-get install gimp openoffice firefox'?

Pretty much that, and save it to an SH file.

[johnshaw1917]

Ah, that helps to shed a little light on the subject. Thanks.

[Neo]

thx paul for explanation

but as u said its like upgrading from vista to 7 ... but we dont do that in 6 months ... thats why i asked this question to find some convenient way

as of backups, as u said i can do it on my poratble drive but what abt any additional s/w i have installed

[hellnoire]

thx paul for explanation

but as u said its like upgrading from vista to 7 ... but we dont do that in 6 months ... thats why i asked this question to find some convenient way

as of backups, as u said i can do it on my poratble drive but what abt any additional s/w i have installed

And like Vista and 7, you don't have to do it in six months. You can do it in a year, two, three...

You choose how long you want to. Ubuntu LTS is a prime example, and Debian's another. You can wait for them to update, and usually, you can stay with an OS for up to about two years, give or take, before the newest release.

Ah, that helps to shed a little light on the subject. Thanks.

I'd like to add... I'm trying to get my girlfriend to buy me a book on BASH scripting. So if I can learn more, I will...

[johnshaw1917]

And like Vista and 7, you don't have to do it in six months. You can do it in a year, two, three...You choose how long you want to. Ubuntu LTS is a prime example, and Debian's another. You can wait for them to update, and usually, you can stay with an OS for up to about two years, give or take, before the newest release.

I still run Ubuntu 9.04 because it uses GRUB Legacy, which lets me also boot Windows from a separate HDD and Fedora from another. The newer version of GRUB doesn't do that. I tried.

[hellnoire]

I still run Ubuntu 9.04 because it uses GRUB Legacy, which lets me also boot Windows from a separate HDD and Fedora from another. The newer version of GRUB doesn't do that. I tried.

Indeed. If you keep it up to date, it shouldn't matter what version you're running. My buddy is running 9.10 on his parent's PC because we agree: it's the best version for us.