[ubuntu-za] upgrade or not

[Vijay Makanjee]

Given that the new ubuntu is about to be formally released, what advice 
can you give me. Should one upgrade from an LTS to a 6-monthly changed 
version?

Vijay Makanjee
Ergo | P O Box 19801 | Tecoma 5214 | South Africa
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vijay at ergo dot co dot za


Morgan Collett wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 14:05, Reenen Laurie <REENENL at pepstores.com> wrote:
>> How is the CPT party coming along?
> 
> Still several things to confirm, but here's the wiki page for it:
> http://wiki.ubuntu-za.org/Intrepid_Release_Party/Cape_Town
> 
> Please add your names if you can (maybe) come.
> 
>> If possible could someone bring some DVDs with enough stuff on to
>> upgrade to hardy / intrepid from Feisty?
> 
> I certainly have a Hardy DVD, and will have an Intrepid CD image to
> burn. If we get someone from one of our Institutions of Higher
> Bandwidth coming, maybe we'll have Intrepid DVD images too.
> 
>> I am on feisty, and I have over 500mb of "upgrades", and in that I don't
>> even know if I'll be on Hardy / Intrepid, probably only the latest
>> version of Feisty.
> 
> That would be the updates for feisty... you would know if it's
> upgrading to a newer release.
> 
>> Maybe I should create a download script (I heard you can, dunno yet) and
>> post it too.
> 
> That would get your Feisty up to date: in Synaptic Package Manager,
> click Mark All Upgrades, then File / Generate package download script.
> If someone volunteers to download the packages for you, send them that
> script and they can easily pull down the packages and write them to CD
> for you.
> 
> You can't upgrade from Feisty to Hardy (or Intrepid) without going via
> Gutsy, so you might want to consider a fresh install of Intrepid. It
> helps to have /home on a separate partition for that, but otherwise
> (or anyway) back it up first...
> 
> Regards
> Morgan
>