This something I never had with windows. Confidence in my operating system. What do I mean by this? Well let me explain.

Just recently I was doing a remote upgrade of Ubuntu Jaunty to Ubuntu Karmic. Everything was going along as easily as a hot knife through butter. Configuration files were changed, packages were downloaded and were in the process of being installed. Then it happened.

Halfway through the upgrade. At the most sensitive part where the packages were being installed. The computer was rebooted. This could easily happen to anyone if there is a power glitch and you are not using an UPS. In this case, if you remember I was connected remotely, the end user decided to reboot the computer. After I had specifically told them not to touch it. I don't blame them. These sort of things happen.

As expected the computer did not boot up properly but was able to boot at least to a console. Even if it didn't I wouldn't have been worried. The end user understandably was. They asked if everything had to be reinstalled from scratch. I said that it was not needed. They asked if I could save it

and I replied "Of course, this is Linux".