Gosse J de Jong wrote:
My name is Gosse de Jong i am a newbie in your user group. Sorry for my terrible English. The reason why i use this group is because in Holland is Linux not so a live as in GB. If there are further questions i will answer them.
You're more than welcome to visit our little group! We export tulips from this area to Holland so you might as well have some Linux from us too :-)
But now to the point in my update manager form Ubuntu i have had the message for updating to Ubuntu 7.10 are there people on the other side of the see they can tell me there experience about it. Is it use full to make a backup of the data?
Firstly: Anyone who suggested doing anything without a full backup would be a fool, and you should have full backups anyway! But I updated two separate PCs a couple of days before the formal release using the update manager, and without any problems whatsoever.
If you have heavily modified your installation you might find things break, but the update manager seems to pick up on most things and I had no problems. Software that you installed from third party repositories will generally remain, but those repositories will be disabled by the update.
To be honest, 7.10 is a nice incremental step forward from 7.04; it isn't a major change (so shouldn't break anything) but fixes several things, tidies up a few others, and simplifies a few more, so it's worth doing.
My opinion is that you're more likely to lose data from normal day-to-day stuff (like hardware failure) than from this upgrade, so you should have backups anyway, but not especially for this upgrade.
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