[CoLoCo] is hardy fairly stable or not

[Neal McBurnett]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 11:41:55AM -0700, Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> I am going to be doing a clean install soon and was wondering if it's time to
> give hardy a try. This is on my main desktop so I would like it to be fairly
> reliable. I can survive breakage. I have at least 2 installs at all times and
> can always boot the other - I guess I'm dual booting but both are Ubuntu :). I
> would just like to minimize problems as I've already done a lifetime's worth of
> Ubuntu installs already. Has anyone installed hardy and what are your
> impressions?

It is always risky to run alpha software on your live data files.
Case in point: hardy has Firefox 3.0.  If you run it with your home
directory set to your normal live home directory, with a .mozilla
subdirectory, I think it will convert from firefox 2 to firefox 3.  If
it works - great.  If not, it is a pain to back out from backup....

So I certainly advise caution, running on test data for a while, lots
of backups, etc.

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/