Preinstall user running both Karmic and Lucid - Lenovo Ideapad S12 from Linux Emporium

[Alex Cockell]

Hi folks, 

I am a basic user of a preinstalled Lenovo Ideapad S12 with partitions
for both 9.10 (currently running - although waiting a week before
accepting the latest kernel updates that appeared in Update Manager - in
case something breaks) and 10.04 - I believe Linux Emporium told me it
was a beta at the time.  Obviously, as a basic preinstall user, I am
concerned when I read about all the incidents being logged and talked
about on this and other lists re the latest version of the Ubuntu
operating environment.

My question is - when would it be safe for me to boot my Lucid instance
and accept all the system updates... and not risk having to send the
machine back to Birmingham to be fixed.. and be without a PC for a
while?

What advice can be offered to us who are end-users?  In the Windows
world, I would probably wait until after Service Pack 1 had come out.
Should I wait until after Ubuntu 10.04 "Service Pack 1" is released
before effecting the move?

Thanks for any and all help.

Alex

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Alex Cockell
alex at acockell.eclipse.co.uk