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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Ubuntu upgrade Post 302187101 by era on Saturday 19th of April 2008 08:11:17 AM
Old 04-19-2008
Previous upgrades have been very smooth; once 8.04 is official, your Update Manager will notify you and offer to upgrade. It's not all that different from the regular security updates, just a lot more packages. However, they still have some wrinkles in that, so I would recommend that you try the Live CD on your hardware before you take the plunge. A lot of packages and dependencies change between major releases, and sometimes, it turns out that an older version still works better.

Personally, I actually keep two boot partitions, and all my own stuff on a separate partition, so I can have two releases installed in parallel and dual-boot between them. It was useful when 6.10 worked with my scanner but 7.04 didn't. (No problem with 7.10 there, so I have been running that exclusively since it came out.)

Having said that, there are also still some things which work better from a reinstall; migrating from an older version to a newer one will not give you exactly the same result e.g. when it comes to Gnome settings in your home directory, Firefox plug-ins, etc etc. Usually the differences are harmless but it might still be something to watch out for down the road.

I've been running the beta for a week or two on my computer at work (sic, my production system) and would say that the upgrade to Firefox 3.0 alone makes it worth upgrading, but YMMV.

I definitely recommend trying the persistent USB stick; saves you from burning a CD you only use half a dozen times, and real handy to keep in your pocket just in case. It's not entirely trivial to set up but the instructions on the wiki are pretty decent. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent

Last edited by era; 04-19-2008 at 09:16 AM.. Reason: USB stick pointer
 

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pbuilder-dist-simple - simple multi-release pbuilder wrapper SYNOPSIS
pbuilder-<dist> operation [...] DESCRIPTION
pbuilder-dist-simple is a wrapper that makes it easy to use pbuilder with chroots for many different Ubuntu distributions. If you need more features than pbuilder-dist-simple provides, have a look at pbuilder-dist(1). USAGE
Create one symlink to pbuilder-dist-simple for each distribution for which you want a build environment, naming them like "pbuilder-lucid", "pbuilder-natty", etc. Replace operation with the action you want pbuilder-dist-simple to do (create, update, build, clean, login or execute). EXAMPLES
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pbuilder(1), pbuilderrc(5), pbuilder-dist(1) AUTHORS
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