[Cialug] Tracking the Ubuntu beta distribution

[Nathan C. Smith]

I have had good success with just updating the apt sources to upgrade ubuntu
and migrate debian to ubuntu.

-Nate

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel A. Ramaley [mailto:daniel.ramaley at DRAKE.EDU] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 8:13 AM
> To: cialug at cialug.org
> Subject: [Cialug] Tracking the Ubuntu beta distribution
> 
> I recently acquired a MacBook which i've set up to dual-boot OS X and 
> Ubuntu 6.10. I chose Ubuntu (as opposed to Debian, that i 
> normally use) 
> because of its better automatic hardware configuration on laptop 
> computers. So far i've been impressed with how much it figured out 
> automatically. But there are still a few issues, and it looks like i 
> can either spend hours manually fixing them on 6.10 (which kind of 
> defeats my original purpose of using Ubuntu), or i can 
> upgrade to 7.04 
> where most of the issues are fixed out-of-the-box.
> 
> My question is, if i install the beta version of 7.04, is it 
> like Debian 
> Testing where i can just use aptitude to update to the final release 
> version without any serious issues? If so i think i'll go 
> ahead and do 
> that, but if updating to the final version will be a problem 
> then i'll 
> just wait a couple months until 7.04 is actually released.
> 
> The way that i use Linux has really changed... 10 years ago i used to 
> love spending the time to make a machine work the way i want 
> it to. Now 
> i just want to install it and start using it as soon as possible.
> 
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