Comments on How to transform your Ubuntu installation into a rolling release
Ubuntu users out there have two ways to go with their systems. Either they choose to follow the “standard” release that gets upgraded every six months, or choose the latest LTS (Long Term Support) which guarantees security updates and support for a five-year period. The problem with the first is that you'll have to perform major upgrades to your system twice a year, while the issue with the latter is that you won't get any major updates on parts of the system that you may care about using what's latest.
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This is not a rolling release, not really. Running in "devel mode" is not the same at all, as it is not static, with things tried out, swapped, reverted and the like. Also, the likelihood of non-functioning proprietary graphics drivers due to fresh kernel and xorg crack is very high.
This won't work. Mainly because 3 out of 4 of your apt commands are (syntatically) incorrect.
Perhaps apt is an alias you have setup, but for the normal user this won't work.
Please update your article to show the full commands for:
sudo apt-dist-upgrade -> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
apt -f installand -> apt-get -f install <app>
apt -f dist-upgrade -> apt-get -f dist-upgrade
You may also need to do an apt-get upgrade after the dist-upgrade and may or may not need to use sudo if apt-get -f doesn't work
Actually, apt-get has been recently updated so that you now only need to issue apt (not apt-get) for many commands. They've also thrown in some addtional eye-candy, like a progress bar.
Try it and see for yourself.
Also, should have been:
apt dist-upgrade not apt-dist-upgrade
I didn't know you could do this. Great information. i wouldn't recommend doing it, though. it's just like running Debian sid and it will break frequently, causing you many headaches. If you want a reasonably trouble free system, use debian testing as your rolling release instead.
I've been using debian-sid on my desktop for years without troubles, and in fact I prefer it over the Ubuntu point-releases.
you do know Ubuntu is based off of Debian Sid right?
If you run Ubuntu devel like Debian Testing or Sid, DO NOT run 'apt dist-upgrade'. You'll avoid the package breakages that come up from time to time. I have been on Debian Sid since 2007. No issues with leaving that command omitted.