One time I got a bee in my bonnet about cross-grading my Ubuntu system from 32-bit to 64-bit. I blame Chris Siebenmann for linking me to the HOWTO article. Cro

One time I got a bee in my bonnet about cross-grading my Ubuntu system from 32-bit to 64-bit. I blame Chris Siebenmann for linking me to the HOWTO article. Cross-grading is not for the faint of heart. It's the worst I've ever messed up any system, personal or at work. All kinds of things broke in novel ways, and it took me about 2 weeks to put it together again, which was a miraculous event in itself. I rejoiced when X and KDE were able to start again. And that's the price I paid to have an up-to-date system without reformatting.