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This upgrade is directly inspired from an article by Joey Sneddon over at OMG! Ubuntu. Joey upgrades a 10.04 installation to 12.04 and gets some really great results. The jump from Lucid to Precise is a significant one, so seeing his success, minus the loss of his wallpaper, is great news for those of us that are able to stick with this Jurassic release.
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This upgrade is directly inspired from an article by Joey Sneddon over at OMG! Ubuntu. Joey upgrades a 10.04 installation to 12.04 and gets some really great results. The jump from Lucid to Precise is a significant one, so seeing his success, minus the loss of his wallpaper, is great news for those of us that are able to stick with this Jurassic release. I mean let’s face it, it just works. The fact that Lucid ‘just works’ is its greatest achievement. I remember when I was younger, a working computer was not such a big deal. My machines were routinely broken because I was trying this or that, or testing something just for the sake of it. That behavior has changed with age. My argument for using Ubuntu over other distributions is a simple, philosophical one; Do you need something to do or do you need to do something.
I wrote recently about the long-term viability of Ubuntu 10.04 and how you can still benefit from using it as your main machine or later releases. After all, this release still has 1 year of updates left for desktop users, and 3 years of updates on the server. Those server updates can easily be had past the desktop edition’s EOL as well. Ubuntu claims to support the desktop edition for 3 years, though lots of softwares are left behind collecting version dust in your Gnome menu Thanks to Launchpad, there are quite a few PPAs to sate your need for up-to-date software too. Thanks to these PPAs, I’m able to use Shotwell over F-Spot, and up until recently I was able to run the most current release. With many softwares moving to GTK3, it’s the end of the road for updates on 10.04 regardless of another year of updates. Full Story |
