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From: Colin Watson on 12 Apr 2008 05:29
Chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>Richard Lamont wrote:
>> Hold on for a few weeks until the next LTS (long-term support) version
>> of Ubuntu (8.04) is released.
>>
>> Ubuntu's LTS editions come out about once every two years and have three
>> years support on the desktop, five on the server. You can upgrade from
>> one LTS edition directly to the next, without having to go via the
>> 6-monthly non-LTS releases.
>
>Have you tried it? How reliable is it?

Pre-release reports may not be all that authoritative here, of course;
we're still fixing things.

>Considering that the updates between non-LTS ubuntu releases can be
>problematic, how are the developers managing to sort out the problems of
>aligning two year-old configs with a new release? I'd be very cautious
>myself.

We're putting a great deal of work into this at the moment, with
automatic test farms doing upgrades from 6.06 to 8.04, comparing the
result with fresh installations, and in general treating differences or
complete failures as release-critical bugs. This is much more work than
has been put into upgrades between six-monthly releases to date. Of
course we also get the benefit of having analysed a large number of
failures from the 6.06-to-6.10 upgrade in particular (which was
notoriously difficult); this mostly comes down to a fairly small number
of causes which I believe are now fixed or worked around.

So far reports are looking good; in the event that there are widespread
unforeseen problems, we already plan to release 8.04.1 in early July and
will be able to fix upgrade problems then.

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Colin Watson [cjwatson(a)chiark.greenend.org.uk]
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