Hi,
The next version of Kubuntu is coming in a week as of this writing. Here is some suggestion.
If you have a working system, and particularly if you use third party software, such as "hardware drivers" for wireless, graphics cards and such, you may want to wait a little to upgrade.
The rule of thumb is to wait a month after the release to do the upgrade. Why?
Of course, you can always try a liveCD, even if you plan to do an upgrade (which is always do) as opposed to a fresh install. However, the liveCD will not have all these third party applications installed.
Of course it is up to you do, Linux gives you as much freedom as there is. This is just an honest recommendation to make your life easier, especially if you are a new user.
Mods and Admins, I suggest that either this post or a post along these lines is pinned here in the New User Forum, for the next few weeks. We always have early adopters breaking their systems because, well, it is too early, but they have no experience to dig themselves out.
Thanks
Leo
The next version of Kubuntu is coming in a week as of this writing. Here is some suggestion.
If you have a working system, and particularly if you use third party software, such as "hardware drivers" for wireless, graphics cards and such, you may want to wait a little to upgrade.
The rule of thumb is to wait a month after the release to do the upgrade. Why?
- Some times NVIDIA and or ATI release new drivers for the recent release a little after the release date
- A wealth of bugs in the release are usually fixed in the first few weeks.
- The ubuntu servers will be slow, really slow the first few days (there are millions of *buntu users by any reasonable estimate).
Of course, you can always try a liveCD, even if you plan to do an upgrade (which is always do) as opposed to a fresh install. However, the liveCD will not have all these third party applications installed.
Of course it is up to you do, Linux gives you as much freedom as there is. This is just an honest recommendation to make your life easier, especially if you are a new user.
Mods and Admins, I suggest that either this post or a post along these lines is pinned here in the New User Forum, for the next few weeks. We always have early adopters breaking their systems because, well, it is too early, but they have no experience to dig themselves out.
Thanks
Leo
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