Ubuntu 7.04 Released! [[vox] CD burns needed for WEF and GTC events]

[Richard Mancusi]

On 4/19/07, Micah Cowan <micah at cowan.name> wrote:
> Richard Mancusi wrote:
> > Does anyone know if Herd-5 plus all updates exactly equals final.
> > I understand that the package count will be different unless you clear out
> > "Installed (Local or Obsolete)".  In my case that is 29 packages, mostly
> > old
> > Linux Headers, etc.  If there is any question, I would rather format the
> > drive
> > and start from scratch.  No sense in introducing potential problems later.
>
> If you upgraded to a pre-release Feisty, regardless of when, and have
> kept it up-to-date until today, it should be the same as having upgraded
> today.
>
> My personal experience is that upgrading from Edgy to Feisty was /much/
> more seamless than upgrading from Dapper to Edgy; however, I performed
> the Dapper-to-Edgy upgrade much earlier in the development cycle, and
> used apt-get dist-upgrade rather than the update manager (which for
> desktop edition is strongly recommended over apt), so the comparison may
> be irrelevant.
>
> Feisty seems to have been running pretty stable for the Beta users
> (including me). If you love stability, I wouldn't recommend activating
> the "desktop effects" (compiz), and I'm aware of some printing hangs
> (ghostscript loops) with workarounds (use alternate ghostscript!), but
> otherwise, it seems quite good.
>
> I hadn't been planning on installing it at work (need a stable
> environment), but after running it at home without incident, I'm going
> ahead today! :)
>
> --
> Micah J. Cowan
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Thank you - looks like I am o.k. because I did a clean install.  No update
from a previous version - format, install herd-5, all updates since.

I appreciate the help
-rich