[Cialug] Tracking the Ubuntu beta distribution

[Laith Preston]

I agree with the others it shouldn't give much trouble with upgrading. 
as far as the package management would be concerned it is no different 
than just having not checked for updates to your current version for a 
while, if you keep up with current BETA than when it goes gold you 
should be fairly in sync.

Lathrop

Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> 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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