Comment 12 for bug 1168866

>this six-monthly nightmare where everything goes belly up

You should only upgrade to the LTS (long term support) versions, they are generally more stable and last longer. they only come out every 2 years I believe. that's what I'll be doing from now on. the new fancies can wait. I thought all upgrades where just as stable but apparantly the LTS ones are more, the other ones seem to me too much beta versions, where new things are tried out and the ones that work best are put into the next LTS release.