On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 1:49 AM, sentient.being <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, I have been running ubuntu 7.04 for quite some time now and am > quite satisfied. But the geek inside is obviously not, and thus I have > decided to upgrade. > I have got an ubuntu 8.04 free dvd. I need any pointers, catches which > you all think noteworthy.
It is definitely slower but you would get more features as well. BTW, 8.10 is also out but 8.04 is the LTS (long time support? = 3 years) version. > Some queries I have - > What of the softwares I have installed? Will they all be deleted ? I would seriously suggest you do a fresh installation instead of upgrading. > Would I need mega downloads from net? Initially yes. You'll have some security updates and stuff. My guess would be that it will come out to be 200 to 300 MBs of size. > Do settings remain preserved? like firefox bookmarks, tomboy notes > etc? If you have a separate /home partition and don't format it, yes, they'll be intact. Sharad --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- group http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
