[ubuntu-uk] to upgrade or not (Macbook 3,1 on Ibex)

[Rob Beard]

doug livesey wrote:
> My discipline says "leave it", as there was a bunch of stuff to do 
> before I got my system working (mostly) as I like it, and I really 
> don't have time to be mucking about configuring a new system that I 
> use for *everything*, personal stuff, work, everything.
> But I'm hearing all over the place that Jaunty is amazing, and it's a 
> new toy, and I wanna play!
> What do those on the list who need to be rather more conservative with 
> upgrades do?
> Should I leave it a bit for the more adventurous to write tutorials on 
> how to avoid the frustration they went through?
> Will there be any advantage to letting a few weeks & a number of 
> update fixes pass?
> Or should I man up?
>    Doug.
There is not need to upgrade at the moment unless you want to.  Ubuntu 
8.10 is supported until April 2010 so you have at least a year until 
support runs out (technically you could run it past this date but I 
would assume it would no longer be supported with security updates).  
Now if I'm correct LTS releases come out every 2 years (going on 6.06 
coming out in 2006 and 8.04 coming out in 2008) so presumably the next 
LTS release will be Ubuntu 10.04 which should be supported on the 
Desktop until 2013 (going on the three year support length on desktop 
systems).

You could look at running Jaunty in a virtual machine or maybe even look 
at installing it alongside 8.10 (and presumably MacOS X too).  I presume 
you have an Intel Mac and that it supports booting from more than 2 
operating systems? (I've got an old PPC Mac and haven't looked at Boot 
Camp).

Hope this helps.

Rob