Should I go from Dapper to Feisty?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

Jim Smith <jim at oz.net> wrote:
>  In your opinion which would be the best upgrade path?

>  a. Back up /home/jim, wipe partition clean and install fresh?

If you are willing/prepared/able to do that, then that would best, and
it will give you the opportunity to create a separate /home partition,
so that in the future you wipe the system without having to worry about
your data, you will be back up and running in just 10 minutes, the time
it takes to install from the Live CD.

>  b. Upgrade from CD?

No, no no no. Upgrades (via the upgrade tool/update manager) are
designed to be done only from one release to the next. 
You could still do it, though, but you would have to do it now, by
upgrading to Edgy first. Then once that is done and succesful, run the
upgrade too again to reach Feisty.

>  c. Upgrade using "apt-get dist-upgrade?"

That's not recommended, and is why the update manager has
been developed, as it's more clever, and will yield a smoother
transition.

> Considering that Feisty is still"pre-release" How much is still broken?

I am afraid you can't think of it this way, that would be too easy ;-)
For example for me it works just fine, but on your particular machine,
with your particular requirements, it may be that a particular bug will
be a show stopper for you, but not for other people. The only way to
find out is to install it first, run/use/test it for 3 days, and see for
yourself how it is broken on YOUR particular machine ;-)

> I need to do some work on this machine so there has to be some continuity.

Work = don't use development versions, period ;-)

> Should I wait for a possible Herd6?

You should wait for the final version.

The release schedule is there:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeistyReleaseSchedule

The wisest thing once could advise, given that the release date is
quite close, is to wait 5 weeks for Feisty to be released/final, then
do a clean install since you are prepared for it, or if you want to
upgrade in-situ, then use the update-manager not dist-upgrade, AND
update to Edgy first, then run it again to update to Feisty, when it is
released.


HTH

--
Vince