safe to upgrade to meerkat alpha 3?

[NoOp]

On 08/27/2010 03:03 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   after a couple glasses of wine, i'm willing to live dangerously and
> upgrade my fully-updated lynx system to maverick meerkat alpha 3, as
> discussed here:
> 
> http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/maverick/alpha3
> 
>   any reason i shouldn't?

Yes. If you currently use an nvidia-96 driver it won't work with xorg
1.9, you'll need to use the nouveau driver & will no longer have compiz 3D.

Also, be sure that you bypass 2.6.35-16 (BUG: scheduling while atomic:)
& go straight to 2.6.35-19. Of course you can then wait out:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1-gnome/+bug/623819