On 13/10/10 23:49, azmodie wrote: <snip> > in the meantime i think new and general users should run the more stable > Long Term Support release (LTS). as it is generally the most stable release > compared to the 6 monthly release. tends to upgrade to next LTS more > reliably than the 6 monthly to 6 monthly.
For a number of years now, I've upgraded both LTS and 6-month releases (and installed several versions on various machines from scratch). The upgrade from Hardy to Lucid on my main machine last week was a pain - Thunderbird's windowing and menus not working, Xsane ceasing to function, splash screen graphics wrong. After hours of fruitless investigation, I found that several of the problems seem related to the removal of the fglrx driver (which doesn't support Xorg 1.7), which has caused some folk a lot of difficulty. It's this sort of thing that leads to the kind of frustration that upset the OP, and one has to sympathise, even though there may be 'good' reasons for the hassle. It certainly confirms the old adage that FOSS is only free if your time has no value. mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
