[Gloucs] Bad Karma

[Sean Keeney]

The Ubuntu biannual releases are fantastic as long as you do a reinstall,
not an upgrade. Just stick your /home directory on its own partition and
you're good to go.

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with KK - if we're going to use
anecdotal evidence as proof it's broken then I can use it to prove it's
brilliant. My work laptop works out of the box with the most difficult
hardware ever - some weird ATI Mobility graphics, Broadcom wireless, even
the hot keys and wireless toggles just work.

Remember the init script and udev stuff has changed radically in recent
kernels, I can't imagine how hard that would be to cater for in an upgrade
situation. Just reinstall and be done with it.

Sean

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Andrew Oakley <Andrew.Oakley at hesa.ac.uk>wrote:

> Gerd Busker wrote:
> > Glyn Davies wrote:
> > > Any one else having a bad time with Karmic Koala? My laptop
> > There is something fundamentally wrong with KK.  After
>
> I had a hell of a time upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10 so went back to 8.04
> and stayed there.
>
> Ubuntu's LTS (Long Term Support) releases are excellent, especially if
> you leave it until a couple of months after release. These are 6.06
> Dapper, 8.04 Hardy and the forthcoming 10.04 Lucid. They work, they stay
> working for 3-5 years, they get all the updates, and if you want
> cutting-edge stuff you can usually find it on a Launchpad ppd repo
> anyway (but remember to uninstall the ppd stuff when you upgrade to the
> next LTS).
>
> I really think Canonical should stop promoting non-LTS releases as
> anything other than test releases. With a six-month upgrade cycle and
> only 18 months support, these releases are not suitable for anything
> other than testing. They're fine as your secondary distro, to see what
> cutting-edge features are being developed for the next LTS release, but
> they're not suitable for reliable day-to-day work.
>
> LTS releases are the "stable" branch of Ubuntu. The non-LTS releases are
> unstable.
>
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