Question regarding the upgrade to 14.04.3

[Bruce Pieterse]

On 03/08/2015 17:10, Patrik Bubák wrote:
> 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
>>>
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>>>>
>>>> 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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> Sent using Evolution <https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution/> from
> Ubuntu <http://ubuntu.com/desktop>
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 

This makes excellent FAQ material. Where should this go?

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome/+faqs or
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/FAQ or both?

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All the best,

Bruce