Author: Steve Wesemeyer Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] What would you do,
faced with the following advice re Ubuntu
Hi Lisi,
On Saturday 25 September 2010 17:42:57 Lisi wrote: > Note: this is not for my production desktop, which is still running Lenny.
> <quote>
> 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)
> </quote>
>
> 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?
Well, as with most distro releases (maybe with the exception of Debian
stable), you usually have to wait 3-6 months before most of the really
annoying bugs have been shaken out.
I have had a few issues with 10.04 but I solved my last one today (stopping a
really annoyingly loud system beep on shutdown).
So I would go for 10.04 as I wouldn't trust 10.10 at all yet and 8.04 is
ancient (mind you as you run Debian Lenny you might actually feel more at home
with that version... only half-kidding)
The fact that "it works for me" is probably not particularly helpful, though.
It might be more productive if you shared your "failures" with 10.04 in case
someone on the list can come up with a solution.
