[ale] Ubuntu 7.10 -> 8.04

[Björn Gustafsson]

LTS is one of the things that appeals to me about 8.04, and the main
reason why I've been thinking about upgrading.  Bad press (mostly on
the ALE list, but elsewhere as well) is why I have been hesitating.

Given the risks on my primary home machine, I probably will do a clean
install.  But it's good to hear that a migration is possible.

2008/9/29 Kenneth Price <neth.price at gmail.com>:
> As long as your 7.10 installation isn't too customized, the migration to
> 8.04 should be painless.  I've migrated 3 laptop installs this way and the
> only issue I had was with Eclipse, which simply needed a reinstall.
> However, if you can get away with backing up your files to another PC and
> performing a clean install, definitely go that route.
>
> Another advantage of 8.04 is that it's a "LTS - Long Term Support" release.
> From my perspective, using it at the workplace, a long-term support release
> is paramount.  I could care less about my home laptops.
>
> Regards,
> Ken Price
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Björn Gustafsson <bg-ale at bjorng.net> wrote:
>>
>> Has anybody out there upgraded from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 recently?  My
>> machine's update manager keeps taunting me that there's a new major
>> version, and I'm tempted to use the "automatic" upgrade.
>>
>> More generally, does 8.04 look pretty stable these days?  I had heard
>> about some problems with it early on, but haven't been paying that
>> much attention lately.

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Björn Gustafsson