Updating from 8.04 LTS -- incrementally or jump or not at all?

[Pastor JW]

On Saturday, May 14, 2011 1:25:40 pm h.stencil at verizon.net wrote:
> One older machine on my home net has been running flawlessly
> for years, using the KDE3.5 desktop and Kubuntu 8.04.  I
> gather that KDE4 has pretty much got past its teething
> problems, and I'd like to bring this box up to date.
> 
> Should I...
> 
> -incrementally update, issue by issue?
> 
> -incrementally update, using only LTS issues?

Best choice, however what you would need to do is first load gnome then boot 
into that, do the upgrade to the next LTS (10.04) which should work flawlessly 
as they made that Gnome junk work.  They do seem to think of KDE as a red 
headed stepchild but it really is the ONLY Ubuntu that works!!  Once done with 
the upgrade, reboot into KDE and just do the normal updates. 

> -jump update, directly to 11.04?

Not likely to work unless you are REALLY good at hand rolling a distro.  Still 
would take a terrible amount of time to do what others have already done. 
> 
> -leave it the hell alone?

second best choice, BUT to do the correct upgrade path, you would do the above 
unless you want to try stepping through each successive upgrade, some of which 
are already no longer supported and waste a HUGE amount of time.

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