Well, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is almost upon us, due for release at the end of this month. This will be the first Long Term Support release since April of 2008’s Hardy Heron.
I’ll be upgrading at some point by doing a fresh install. What are your plans? Are you planning to upgrade? Will you upgrade through the Update Manager on your system? Will you do a completely fresh install? If so, how will you backup your data? You may be interested in using something like APTonCD to retain some of your applications, or at least as a listing of them.
If you’d like to try out the latest, pre-release version of Lucid Lynx, click here to download.
So, let me know what you plan to do in the comments below.
I have already upgraded 2 machines to the lucid beta and update manager seems to do a pretty good job of updating I haven’t found any packages that were missing from the upgrade. However on one of my “butchered” installs, lucid screwed up XDM and I had to disable the splash (still usplash?) screen in order to login, a minor blip but I guess it was just because Lucid is still in beta. I was a bit naughty and didn’t back up my data, but my important work is on Dropbox so I wasn’t that worried.