[Eug-lug] Ubuntu LTS upgrade policy

[Garl Grigsby]

> I'm 0.5 for three with upgrading Dapper to Edgy.  Two of them failed
> so completely that I had to wipe, install, and restore backups.  The
> third one is broken in small ways*, but it boots, and I haven't had
> time to reinstall.
See that surprises me. I have one system that went from 5.10, to 6.06, 
and last week to 6.10 with only a few problems. I had binary video 
drivers installed on 5.10 and the machine wasn't happy with the upgrade 
(had to boot into safe mode and switch back to the nv driver). After 
that I learned my lesson. Revert to the default driver(s) before 
upgrading. Other than that, and having to reinstall a couple of 
packages, everything seems to work. It took a while (hours) to download 
all the packages, but it did work. Now this is on my kids desktop 
machine, so maybe it was simpler that most, but it did work.

Garl