Fwd: Laptops and 14.04 upgrade path

[William Frick]

Thank you all !  Tiger direct has several HP touch screen laptops that make
the 'certified' list at the $500 mark.

As to the LTS upgrade I'll wait as my 3D printing is too important to risk
down time right now.

Again, thanks everyone !


On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Ian! D. Allen <idallen at idallen.ca> wrote:

> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 02:31:19PM -0400, Stephen M. Webb wrote:
>
>> Upgrading from LTS to LTS (ie. 12.054 LTS to 14.04 LTS) is fully
>> supported.
>>
>
> Not yet, it isn't:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes
>
> And from here:
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/110477/how-do-i-
> upgrade-to-a-newer-version-of-ubuntu
>
> According to Ubuntu Engineering Foundations team manager Steve Langasek:
>
>     Upgrades between LTS releases are not enabled by default until the
> first point release, 12.04.1/14.04.1, scheduled for July/August. It is
> recommended that most LTS users wait until then before upgrading to
> 12.04/14.04.
>
> If you choose to upgrade before then, you can pass the -d option to the
> upgrade tool, running do-release-upgrade -d or update-manager -d, to
> upgrade from vanilla 10.04/12.04 to 12.04/14.04.
>
> See this Q&A for further details:
>
> Why is "No new release found" when upgrading from a LTS to the next?
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/125392/no-new-release-found-when-upgrading-
> a-from-10-04-lts-to-12-04-lts
>
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