Problems with ubuntu 11.04

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 13:32 +0100, Colin Law wrote: 
> On 9 August 2011 13:21, Andrew <andy.allen at virgin.net> wrote:
> > I recently upgraded to 11.04 from 9.10 and having some problems with it:
> > it seems a bit unstable (and slow), although I may be a bit 'hardware
> > limited' (running a rather old Dell Dimension system). Also problem
> > getting my HP Color Laserjet 3500 to print colours correctly despite
> > installing latest version of hplip-3.11.7.run
> > Was I ill-advised to go straight to 11.04 and should I instead go
> > 'back/down' to 10.04 which hopefully has had most of the bugs ironed
> > out?
> 
> 11.04 is fine as far as I am concerned.   

I would expect it to go wonkers, jumping from 9.10 to 11.04...
that's too great a jump for non-LTS versions. How the OP even thought it
would work is beyond me. Had he gone to 10.04 first he wouldn't be
having these issues.  <harrumpfs> Ric

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