how safe is it to start running the alpha of 11.04?

[Nils Kassube]

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