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

[O. Sinclair]

On 14/05/2011 22:25, h.stencil at verizon.net wrote:
> One older machine on my home net has been running flawlwssly
> 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?
>
> -jump update, directly to 11.04?
>
> -leave it the hell alone?
I would look at the Trinity project that keeps an updated KDE3 version 
going. I use it on older hardware and have no problems. KDE4 is too 
heavy for say P4 with 512 Mb RAM - in my opinion. Even if you switch off 
desktop effects and kill file indexing.

http://www.trinitydesktop.org/