Alan Bell wrote: > At this point in the cycle the 8.04 LTS has only a little more > support time than the non LTS 9.04 so I would go Jaunty and be nice > and new. Particularly for a desktop to get the notifications and > UbuntuOne working
Hello, Alan. I'm supporting a lot of Ubuntu systems running 8.04 LTS, but I'm not planning to upgrade until the next LTS release. In James' situation, I'd stick to LTS-only releases, otherwise the systems he builds will be more difficult to maintain. I use 8.04 LTS on servers, and desktops/laptops. Before you all flame me, I'm not criticising using the latest Ubuntu releases on your own PC. I'm pointing out that if you have a lot of systems to support, an LTS-only policy is easier to manage. It would then be up to James' customers to decide if they want to upgrade to a more recent non-LTS Ubuntu release such as 9.04. BYW, James, have you considered using "remastersys" to create 'product' recovery CD's for the systems you sell? http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/ubuntu.html This works very well - I used "reconstructor" to remaster the official Ubuntu live/install CD before, but "remastersys" can be used to create a live/install CD or a live/backup CD from a system already installed onto your hard disk. You could offer the live/backup as a product recovery CD to restore the system to the same state it was in when it left the shop. Bye, Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK tel +44(0)1224 712751, fax +44(0)1224 716687, http://www.rowett.ac.uk mailto:a.tra...@abdn.ac.uk, http://bioinformatics.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
