From what I've seen of this distro so far, I really like it... However, I must suggest that more frequent releases be made for the benefit of its user base. The 2008-rc release is very old as of now, and after installing requires a massive update which can potentially (as in my case) lead to system breakage. IMHO, releases every 6 months would be better than yearly releases, or whatever plan is currently being followed.
I think that the small team has not the capacity to run the distro every half year. For sure that would be great. Why did the update lead you to a breakage?
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I assume that as an example frozen bubble as an routinely installed game caused problems. I faced that prob as well. We are working on a new release, but we cannot go without pclinuxos. This is our motherdistro and so we are depending on them. I have to prepare a new install as well and I will go through the update things as you did. Unfortunately. Sorry for the inconvenience.
No problem... Sorry, I didn't realize the dev team was so small.
Most of my breakage seems to have been due to using Synaptic to update things - it was pigging memory and apparently crashed at some point during the update, resulting in XOrg breaking.
If you want to do the installation it again. First remove frozen bubble, then do the update without all the perl-packages. Step through the updates each and mark all seperately. If you recognize a package to remove the whole system, leave it as it is. Yes annoying, but it works. And in a second step add perl to the updates. That is the way it works for me just now.
I'm finding the best way to update is to switch to a VT, turn off GDM, and run apt-get dist-upgrade...
that worked fine for you? good news and worth to keep in mind. So, after a new install of an old SAM, do an apt-get dist-upgrade.
Thanks for writing that.