Upgrading

[NoOp]

On 05/02/2010 12:44 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 3:20 PM, steve reilly <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:
>> Tom H wrote:
>>> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 3:01 PM, steve reilly <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:
>>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>>> My entire Linux experience has been installing the new version. I
>>>>> have version 8.05 on my computer and for a learning experience I would
>>>>> like to upgrade it to 8.10. How do you do this? I use sudo aptitiude
>>>>> upgrade all the time to upgrade the current system. How do I get it to
>>>>> upgrade to another version?
>>>> Ive always used sudo update-manager -d
>>>>
>>>> the d switch has update-manager look for new distributions. their are
>>>> other ways to do this, see here  http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading
>>>
>>> For the who-knows-what-time, "-d" upgrades you to the latest
>>> development release!
>>
>> point taken. correction..  use -c for a release upgrade.
> 
> I hope that I did not sound too harsh... But it is worrying that so
> many people want to use the "-d" (or even "--devel-release"!).
> Thankfully, I suspect that if you use it now, nothing will happen
> because I don't think that the first alpha of MM (I have forgotten
> what the letters stand for), but in a week/month/whatever you would
> skip 10.04 with that command (unless there is some kind of failsafe
> warning before the upgrade is run).
> 
> "-c" is to check whether an upgrade is available.
> 

Good points. BTW:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver
[Maveric Meerkat]