Hi :) Yes, i know LTSes are released on a 2-year cycle but you don't have to upgrade immediately. Support for the desktop LTSes lasts an extra year giving plenty of time to test out the new one and possibly even reject it in favour of the 6monthlies. A lot of updates usually happen in the first few days of a release so i tend to try out new releases on a spare partition after trying the LiveCd rather than committing all 'my' machines.
There are a lot of different possible strategies. For a while i used 6monthlies and upgraded about annually rather than every single new 6monthly. Now i just use a mix of strategies but where i have infrequent access i try to stick to the LTSes and my main machine at home finally settled down at the last LTS so i keep that on 10.04 too, although i have spare partitions and a Virtual Machine for occasional "distro hopping". Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Don C. Myers <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, 2 May, 2011 17:28:44 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] do not upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 with standard resolution widescreen monitor Hi, I've upgraded 5 computers so far from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04, all with wide screen monitors, and have not had any issues at all with screen display. Four systems were upgraded using the traditional procedure. One was upgraded using the live CD. I tried doing a second one with the live CD, and I could not get 11.04 to open to run it as a live CD. I usually check to see if there are any issues. It would get to the point where I should have the desktop displaying, but it never displayed. I didn't take time to try to figure out why the screen didn't display. I figured it might have been some issue with the CD itself, but I don't know. So I ran the upgrade the traditional way on that system with no problems at all. I starting using Ubuntu with 8.10, and have upgraded to each version so far. I upgrade because of the continuous improvements which seem to come, and the improvement in the Linux kernel and drivers with each version. 10.04 was the only one I really had some issues with. So far 11.04 seems to work really well. It will take a little time to get used to Unity. I will like the side bar. I will miss the lack of applets on the top panel, but I see there are some other types which can be installed which I will try as time permits. I do have one issue with Libre Office Base not opening with the icon placed in the side panel. I will send that out as a separate issue. Don On 05/02/2011 10:40 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > On 02/05/11 14:53, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> >> Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is the recommended release for crucial machines that you >don't >> want to upgrade too often. The LTSes only need upgrading about every 2-3 >>years. > > LTS versions are released every two years on the 04 release, so you've got > 8.04 >LTS, 10.04 LTS and the next will be 12.04.... > -- *** * -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
