Install now, upgrade later?

[David Groos]

Thanks Dale.  I kinda guessed this but I needed to hear from someone who had
experience.  Guess I'll go for Karmic if only for 2 months--hope setup goes
somewhat smoothly!
David

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Dale Beams <drbeams at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  David,
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> I'd wait.  It's been my experience it takes a couple of months after the
> final release to work the bugs out so to speak.
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> In addition, I found a jump in speed by doing a fresh install rather than
> an upgrade.  However, I failed to back up important config files and as a
> result am re-configuring the server.  Planned install would be my
> recommendation.
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> Dale
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> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:02:34 -0500
> Subject: Install now, upgrade later?
> From: djgroos at gmail.com
> To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com; edubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
>
>
> Hi All
>
> I've got a promise of a new 64 bit server (well, new for me).  And, I'd
> like to be using it ASAP to better run 2 classes off the same server.
>
> I'm assuming that, since this new server is 64 bit I can't clone my current
> 32 bit server on to it so I will have to install a new server on it.
>
> Ideally, I'd like to do the following. I'd like to install Lucid server
> onto the new hardware while I've got some time (the one week spring break
> starts March 28th for me).  Of course Lucid will still be a fairly beta
> version at that time.
>
> So, how likely is it to work with me installing the beta version, setting
> it up, and then constantly upgrading through the release of the final
> version (probably being) some time towards the end of April?  Any
> estimations on the likelihood of success on this upgrading, anyone?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
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