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

[Chris Weaver]

I have a Macbook 3.1 and I'm nearly about to press the upgrade button (I'm
upgrading a test PC to see how it affects sound and Samba in particular). I
have it dual booting with leopard so I'm perhaps in a better position if it
goes wrong. I'll report back how it goes.

Chris


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2009/4/28 Rob Beard <rob at esdelle.co.uk>

> 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
>
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