[ale] Ubuntu recommendations

[Jim Kinney]

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Geoffrey Myers <lists at serioustechnology.com
> wrote:

> Wolf Halton wrote:
> > Geoffrey,
> >
> > If you are looking to have lots of (mostly minor) updates and upgrades,
> > use newest normal release.  I actually like the bleeding edge, so I used
> > to download alpha versions and run them on dev testing machines.
> > LTS version is less demanding and lower maintenance, but I like
> > semi-annual major updates..
> > If you want a version to learn with use one version back from the newest
> > in both cases.  There will be more how-to information on the net and the
> > issues will be better defined.
>
> Can someone define 'lost of updates and upgrades?'  Updates are fine if
> I'm simply updating various applications without too much pain.  By
> 'upgrade', are you saying a reinstall, or is it simply a larger update?
>

Ububtu and Fedora both support an Upgrade option (Don't know about Ubunbtu
LTS. RHEL doesn't support an upgrade between major releases). That requires
that first the system be brought to the most current update level then the
upgrade essentially updates all of the packages to the version in the new
release . Most of the time it work. The closeer to a basic install from the
basic design of the distro your system is (i.e accept all defaults on
layout, etc, use few or better, no, 3rd party repos, etc) the better the
chances of a successful upgrade. They will always say to back up any
critical data first.

So it's lots of little updates, a really BIG update, then more little
updates with some handwringing in the middle.

>
> >
> > Wolf
> >
> > On 05/11/2011 03:18 PM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> >> Looking at installing Ubuntu on a laptop.  Pretty new to this distro, so
> >> should I go with the latest release or the latest LTS release?
> >>
> >> Pros/Cons?
> >>
> >
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