14.10

[Raymond House]

Thanks Mathieu, that is exactly what I was wondering about.I had to go
through all that with my daughter's laptop when 14.04 came up, she had
12.04 and it was a long process updating on a 1MB download connection.

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <
mathieu.tl at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all, I have read that this version is only supported for 9 months and
> > some say that maybe I should stick with 14.4.since it is LTS. What do you
> > think? I appreciate your thoughts on this. Thanks.
>
> It appears to be correct. At least on my system,
> 'ubuntu-support-status' (I am running utopic) says 9 months. Normal
> (non-LTS) releases tend to be supported for a period between 9 and 18
> months[1].
>
> If there is nothing new you're expecting and aren't running into bugs
> that are blocking your day-to-day use of Ubuntu, you could just as
> well stick with the 14.04 LTS. I also upgrade my systems to the newest
> releases, but that's partly because I'm also involved in the
> development of the releases. If on the other hand you want to benefit
> from new bug fixes, improvements, new applications, etc. then you
> should consider upgrading.
>
> If you decide to upgrade, make sure you look at the release notes[2]
> later today once the release is annouced. There are some gotchas right
> now, such as issues with ATI cards.
>
> Note that not upgrading now will mean that if you decide you want to
> upgrade rather than reinstalling; to go from 14.04 LTS to say, 15.04;
> you'd first need to fully upgrade to 14.10, then upgrade to 15.04; or
> wait until 16.04 LTS is released before you can upgrade directly from
> one LTS to the other.
>
>
> [1] http://www.ubuntu.com/info/release-end-of-life
> [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UtopicUnicorn/ReleaseNotes
>
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