I have a Macbook 3.1 and I'm nearly about to press the upgrade button (I'm upgrading a test PC to see how it affects sound and Samba in particular). I have it dual booting with leopard so I'm perhaps in a better position if it goes wrong. I'll report back how it goes.
Chris -- Chris Weaver Production Manager Resonance104.4FM resonancefm.com +44 (0)207 407 1210 2009/4/28 Rob Beard <[email protected]> > doug livesey wrote: > > My discipline says "leave it", as there was a bunch of stuff to do > > before I got my system working (mostly) as I like it, and I really > > don't have time to be mucking about configuring a new system that I > > use for *everything*, personal stuff, work, everything. > > But I'm hearing all over the place that Jaunty is amazing, and it's a > > new toy, and I wanna play! > > What do those on the list who need to be rather more conservative with > > upgrades do? > > Should I leave it a bit for the more adventurous to write tutorials on > > how to avoid the frustration they went through? > > Will there be any advantage to letting a few weeks & a number of > > update fixes pass? > > Or should I man up? > > Doug. > There is not need to upgrade at the moment unless you want to. Ubuntu > 8.10 is supported until April 2010 so you have at least a year until > support runs out (technically you could run it past this date but I > would assume it would no longer be supported with security updates). > Now if I'm correct LTS releases come out every 2 years (going on 6.06 > coming out in 2006 and 8.04 coming out in 2008) so presumably the next > LTS release will be Ubuntu 10.04 which should be supported on the > Desktop until 2013 (going on the three year support length on desktop > systems). > > You could look at running Jaunty in a virtual machine or maybe even look > at installing it alongside 8.10 (and presumably MacOS X too). I presume > you have an Intel Mac and that it supports booting from more than 2 > operating systems? (I've got an old PPC Mac and haven't looked at Boot > Camp). > > Hope this helps. > > Rob > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- Chris Weaver Production Manager Resonance104.4FM resonancefm.com +44 (0)207 407 1210
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