[ale] Ubuntu 7.10 -> 8.04

[Kenneth Price]

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.
>
> --
> Björn Gustafsson
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