[Nottingham] Running Ubuntu at Nottingham Uni

[Jason Irwin]

On 22/05/12 09:53, Louise Brown wrote:
> One more question – it also tells me that a new release 12.04 LTS is
> available.  Is it preferable to upgrade?  If I hit the upgrade button
> will it just sort itself out?  Will this be ok on my dual boot machine? 
> If the upgrade seems worth doing then I guess it’s maybe worth going for
> it before I start transferring files onto the new computer.  Also I
> suppose I may as well get used to the new version as the 11.10 currently
> installed.  Any thoughts/advice?
The general reports floating around the web seem to say that the
12.04LTS upgrade is pretty good.
Although you should back everything up first!
And yes, it should be OK on dual boot.

12.04 is the "Long Term Support" version, and whether or not you want to
do an in-place upgrade or nuke+pave is up to yourself really.  I'm on
10.10 just now and planning on a nuke+pave approach.  Obviously this
means I will have a lot of software to reinstall and things to
reconfigure, but due to other changes it makes sense for me to follow
this route.  Your situation may differ.

11.10 will be supported for a while longer (10.10 is out of support) so
you don't have an urgent need to upgrade right now if it is inconvenient.

J.