Author: Lisi Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: [Hampshire] What would you do,
faced with the following advice re Ubuntu
Note: this is not for my production desktop, which is still running Lenny.
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Canonical who are the creators of Ubuntu are supporting 8.04 until April 2011
as well as releasing 10.04. Both versions will work, the differences in 10.04
LTS compared to the labs in week 2 are subtle. You MUST install Virtual Box
version 3.1.6 or later for 10.04 to work with the additions installation.
Yhe Open University course team are strongly reccomending that you use 8.04.
You are welcome to use 10.04 but with the advisory that it comes with some
risks.
We have created an addendum pack which can be found in the course resources
page, if you wish to have a go.
(LTS stands for Long Term Support and is described in the course material)
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Hardy is really a bit long in the tooth now...
But the general impression I get is that Maverick, albeit still in Beta, is
generally considered more successful than Lucid.
I have personally had several "failures" with Lucid. (I got on better with
Jaunty.)
Should I try to triple boot Hardy, Lucid and Maverick?
Should I go for one and stick to it? If so which? (Bearing in mind that if I
have a problem with Maverick, which I fancy trying, I shall have to ask for
help since the OU course team are warning me that they can't really support
it!)
Incidentally, so far, the course is a little disappointing. The first week's
work is actually wrong in some of its facts. E.g., Ubuntu shadows Debian
Stable's six monthly release, and is released about a month after it. I kid
you not. They really said that. :-( And one page is clearly quoting some
of Microsoft's more inaccurate FUD. :-(
