Question regarding the upgrade to 14.04.3

[Patrik Bubák]

Thanks a lot, that made things pretty clear.

On Mon, 2015-08-03 at 09:34 -0500, Erick Brunzell wrote:
> Oopsy - below I said the 14.04.2, 14.04.3, and 14.04.4 HWE stacks
> would reach HWE EOL in August 2017. That should have said August
> 2016!!!!!! Sorry for the goof up.
> 
> Lance
> 
> On 08/03/2015 09:29 AM, Erick Brunzell wrote:
> 
> > On 08/03/2015 07:34 AM, Patrik Bubák wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Hi lads,
> > > 
> > > I'm not exactly sure how should I proceed if I'm on 14.04.2 and
> > > want to upgrade to .3. Will the update be available via the update
> > > manager, or is it recommended to rather do a quick re-install
> > > of /?
> > 
> > 
> > No need to reinstall, that would rather defeat the purpose of an LTS
> > wouldn't it? Trusty automatically moves from 14.04 to 14.04.1 to
> > 14.04.2 to 14.04.3, etc, etc .........
> > 
> > Trusty will however remain on the kernel series and matching X-stack
> > version that were provided with the specific installation media
> > until the HWE stacks provided with 14.04.2, 14.04.3, and 14.04.4
> > reach EOL some time in August 2017 at which point the update-manager
> > will begin to warn that the user is approaching HWE EOL and it will
> > offer the upgrade to the 14.04.5 HWE stack.
> > 
> > If a user installed using either the 14.04 or 14.04.1 media they'll
> > remain on the OE HWE (3.13 series kernel) and not have to deal with
> > HWE EOL at all. One reason we didn't go out of our way recommending
> > that most users install using 14.04.1 media is that until 14.04.2
> > ubiquity had a very nasty bug that frequently resulted in data loss
> > during reinstallations.
> > 
> > Lance
> > 
> > 
> > > -- 
> > > Sent using Evolution from Ubuntu
> > > 
> > > Nothing ruins creativity like too many voices weighing in. We call
> > > it the Ice Cream Principle. Tell 10 people to go get ice cream
> > > with one condition: they all have to agree on one flavour. That
> > > flavour is going to be chocolate or vanilla every time. Groups of
> > > people don't agree on what's cool or interesting, they agree on
> > > what's easy to agree on. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 


-- 
Sent using Evolution from Ubuntu

Nothing ruins creativity like too many voices weighing in. We call it
the Ice Cream Principle. Tell 10 people to go get ice cream with one
condition: they all have to agree on one flavour. That flavour is going
to be chocolate or vanilla every time. Groups of people don't agree on
what's cool or interesting, they agree on what's easy to agree on.
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