[ltp] How safe is ubuntu 11.10?

[Steven J. Owens]

On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 04:52:34PM -0700, Rubin Abdi wrote:
> Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote, On 2011-11-05 15:53:
> > The advice I heard from others is do not upgrade to 11.10, do a clean install.
> 
> I don't understand how this is an acceptable thing in the Linux world

> [...] As much as it sucks being
> that weirdo within my *nix circle of friends not running Ubuntu, as
> least I don't have to act like I'm doing a Windows upgrade every 6
> months and figure out if all the hassle will be worth it for device
> compatibility and what not.

     That's why I was running ubuntu 10.4 LTS, it has a much longer
release cycle and support window.  Unfortunately, it came time to
upgrade from my thinkpad t43p to the t520, and I apparently
leapfrogged ahead of the kernel/hardware support in LTS.  

     I ran into problems with suspend-to-ram not working and wired
ethernet not working.  I think I wrangled the latter out here and the
general consensus was that my kernel was just too danged old.

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