Upgrade from 8.10

[marc]

Alvin said:

> On Thursday 23 April 2009 15:07:46 Georgi Kourtev wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am thinking to upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04.  However I saw that one of
>> the known issues is that Kmail sieve functionality is buggy and causes
>> CPU hang. I am using Kmail as my main mail client.  Is this issue
>> serious enough to stop me from upgrade? in any case I wouldn't like to
>> loose my contact with the world...
> 
> That depends. Your sieve filters will keep working, but you'll not be
> able to change them from within Kmail. If you're not using sieve, it
> will not be an issue of course.
> 
> I use Kmail in 9.04 too. Only the KAddressBook bug where you get pop-ups
> is irritating. I can also not empty my trash in Local Folders without
> crashing. Other than that, it's working fine.
> 
> Do read the release notes of Ubuntu too! If you are using an Intel GPU,
> you could get serious performance issues. I'm not having a lot of
> success with fglrx drivers either, but those issues are all in the
> release notes.

kmail also often fails to wake-up from sleep, which requires a restart.

While Jaunty works, pretty much, there is a lot of regression here and 
there.

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Best,
Marc