10.04 to 12.04?

[Avi Greenbury]

Jens Kjaerulff wrote:
> There are probably no easy answers (though I'd like some brief ones),
> but I wonder how common soft/hardware in/compatibility related problems
> are, resulting from such an upgrade?

I've never really had one or seen one in real life, but there are plenty 
of posts and threads from people who have. My impression is that if you 
are at all a 'normal' sort of user on fairly normal hardware you'll be 
fine, though it's probably worth making sure you've a backup first 
anyway. Commonish causes of problems seem to be internal modems, 
non-free graphics drivers and especially old hardware.

> Also, I am assuming all custom configurations will remain unchanged
> after such an upgrade (default email and custom settings, www browser
> bookmarks, various .rc files, repository settings for auto upgrades of
> unsupported software, and such), please correct me if should not assume
> so.

Yeah, that's the general gist. Non-canonical repositories are 
commented-out of sources.list for the upgrade, but you can easily 
re-enable them afterwards (though you might need to point them at the 
saucy version).

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Avi