Re: [libreoffice-users] do not upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 with standard resolution widescreen monitor

Hi :)
Yes, i know LTSes are released on a 2-year cycle but you don't have to upgrade 
immediately.  Support for the desktop LTSes lasts an extra year giving plenty of 
time to test out the new one and possibly even reject it in favour of the 
6monthlies.  A lot of updates usually happen in the first few days of a release 
so i tend to try out new releases on a spare partition after trying the LiveCd 
rather than committing all 'my' machines.  


There are a lot of different possible strategies.  For a while i used 6monthlies 
and upgraded about annually rather than every single new 6monthly.  Now i just 
use a mix of strategies but where i have infrequent access i try to stick to the 
LTSes and my main machine at home finally settled down at the last LTS so i keep 
that on 10.04 too, although i have spare partitions and a Virtual Machine for 
occasional "distro hopping".
Regards from
Tom :)




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From: Don C. Myers <donmyers@myersfarm.com>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Mon, 2 May, 2011 17:28:44
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] do not upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 with standard 
resolution widescreen monitor

Hi,

I've upgraded 5 computers so far from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04, all with wide 
screen monitors, and have not had any issues at all with screen display. Four 
systems were upgraded using the traditional procedure. One was upgraded using 
the live CD. I tried doing a second one with the live CD, and I could not get 
11.04 to open to run it as a live CD. I usually check to see if there are any 
issues. It would get to the point where I should have the desktop displaying, 
but it never displayed. I didn't take time to try to figure out why the screen 
didn't display. I figured it might have been some issue with the CD itself, but 
I don't know. So I ran the upgrade the traditional way on that system with no 
problems at all.

I starting using Ubuntu with 8.10, and have upgraded to each version so far. I 
upgrade because of the continuous improvements which seem to come, and the 
improvement in the Linux kernel and drivers with each version. 10.04 was the 
only one I really had some issues with. So far 11.04 seems to work really well. 
It will take a little time to get used to Unity. I will like the side bar. I 
will miss the lack of applets on the top panel, but I see there are some other 
types which can be installed which I will try as time permits. I do have one 
issue with Libre Office Base not opening with the icon placed in the side panel. 
I will send that out as a separate issue.

Don

On 05/02/2011 10:40 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> On 02/05/11 14:53, Tom Davies wrote:
> > Hi :)
> >
> > Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is the recommended release for crucial machines that you 
> don't
> > want to upgrade too often.  The LTSes only need upgrading about every 2-3 
> > years.
>
> LTS versions are released every two years on the 04 release, so you've got 8.04 
> LTS, 10.04 LTS and the next will be 12.04....

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