how safe is it to start running the alpha of 11.04?
Nils Kassube
kassube at gmx.net
Fri Dec 10 07:13:26 UTC 2010
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> since i don't mind living dangerously, i'm considering
> re-installing on my laptop and putting on the recent alpha of natty
> narwhal. i fully expect there to be a few rough edges, of course,
> as long as there are no exploding, show-stopper bugs. so as long as
> i can constantly update and upgrade to get fixes, any thoughts on
> this?
I have used alpha versions of Kubuntu in the past. Usually there were
only minor problems for a few hours / days with individual applications.
However there once was a problem where the X server wouldn't start any
longer after an update. But next day, installing the necessary update
from the command line fixed the problem, even before I had time to
report the bug. From what you wrote here in the past, I would expect
that you can recover from a similar situation without external help.
Therefore, I think it isn't too dangerous for you to install Natty as
long as you don't depend on the machine where it gets installed.
Nils
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