On 2/14/06, Jim Crumley <crumley at belka.space.umn.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:50:57AM -0600, Pete Daniels wrote:
> > As an aside, "apt-get dist-upgrade" is, from all I've heard, a generally
> > unreliable way to do business.  When Dapper releases in April, I'd
> > reccommend a backup of /home and a fresh install.
>
> In what context did you hear that "apt-get dist-upgrade" was
> unreliable?  Just for Ubuntu?<snip>

My experience is that it works better for Debian itself rather than
Debian based distros.  The two I''ve blown up are Mepis and Ubuntu.