A Friendly Reminder - Wait Before Upgrading

As with any new OS release, I am expecting some fair bugs with the release of Ubuntu 9.10. Already failing to install on my old Averatec 3200, it looks like it will be installing nicely on my System76 Intel based notebook however. But hey, it’s a beta.

If you are planning on being among the early adopters out there, which includes using the new release when it comes out of Beta, consider the following.

• Backup. If you do not and things go badly for you, too bad you were warned here.
• Consider a dedicated /Home partition. This allows me to test out new releases on a daily PC, but means if things do not work out, rolling back leaves all my critical data intact.
• New= Beta at best. As early Vista users will tell you, new Ubuntu releases are always buggy, this is not even debatable. This said, within a month of the release I have seen numerous patches released each time that almost always handle issues that did not show during the beta period. Sometimes waiting is a good thing, but that is up to you.
• If it “ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Seriously, the only reason I am upgrading is to test out a 802.11n dongle that is Linux complaint. Works like a rock star in Puppy Linux at full N speeds, figured I would do some testing in Ubuntu’s latet Beta.