[Advise] Natty upgrades

Liviu Andronic landronimirc at gmail.com
Fri Apr 29 04:42:51 UTC 2011


Hello
Thanks for compiling this Release Warning list.


On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 4:40 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>  Wait for awhile, let the bugs settle in/get resolved, and *then*
> upgrade. Unless you know what you are doing, how to get out of borked
> upgrades/grub errors/troubleshoot video issues, et al, just save
> yourselves some aggrevation and let things settle down before attempting
> an upgrade.
>
Worst is when these un-shippable "borked upgrades/grub
errors/troubleshoot video issues" do not get fixed even several months
into the release. I installed Natty 3 months after the official
release on a test machine, and it was an unstable experience coming
with a broken grub and a potentially huge data-loss bug (never hit
anything that sniffs of 'automatic' on the Ubuntu installer or you
risk wiping clean your entire HD!).

Worse still is that sometimes they do not even acknowledge the issues
and their seriousness, nor do they make an effort to fix the installer
and issue bug-fixing release. I guess all the Unity-effort could have
been spent elsewhere.

Liviu




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