On 05/06/2014 07:37 PM, Mike Holstein wrote:
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Henry W. Peters <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Been using UBS for about a year... on a USB 3 external HD, & dual
boot with Windows 8.1 (v. 1310.10 USB currently).
Two questions that I have concerning the most recent version (14.04):
1). Why is it not the upgrade path recommended (i.e. via Software
Updater)?
2). What are significant differences between these two versions
(i.e., why update or upgrade)?
Thanks for any insights.
1. the path is there, and you can use it if you like, but dont
overthink it...
http://www.liberiangeek.net/2014/01/daily-ubuntu-tips-upgrade-to-ubuntu-14-04-trusty-tahr-from-13-10/
is a nice read relating to upgrading.. let us know if you have any
issues..
2. whats the difference? the main key difference is, 14.04 is an
"lts", or long term support release.. 13.10 is supported for 9 months
total, which means EOL (end of life) soon (in a few weeks or so,
really) compared to 14.04 being supported for 3 years specifically by
the ubuntustudio team, and upstream ubuntu 14.04 repos being up and
supported for 5 years.. if things are working in 13.10, and its an
audio production machine that is not online anyway, there may be
little reason for you to want to upgrade. there are always
improvements that are made (really, there are always changes made, and
one can argue if they are improvements based on how one perceives the
changes). personally, i run only lts releases on my production
machine, so, i updated 12.04 to 14.04 last week.. it looks great and
runs well. i suggest you try it live, and see for yourself first hand
how it runs on your specific hardware, and if you prefer it to 13.10..
cheers and enjoy ubuntustudio regardless of what version you end up
using..
Henry
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Thanks much for reply Mike. I did try the "live" DVD, just before I
wrote my (some what convoluted number one question, sorry about that), &
I was rather amazed that my audio system worked from the git go (I tried
Audacious). I have, thru the years, tried many different Linux systems
on live DVD... & this is the very first time (my) audio worked from the
DVD (i.e., card recognized from DVD). That seemed to be a good sign... &
I think I agree, LTS does interest me... I'll most probably give it a
try...
Regards,
Henry
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