Ubuntu 9.04: Upgrade or Clean Installation?

[Maleeq]

Hi fellas,

I laid my hands on the Jaunty Jackalope yesterday but paused before
the installation. Currently on 8.10, I am faced with the question:
Should I perform an upgrade to my 8.10 or just simply do a clean
installation of 9.04?

Are there any relative advantage/disadvantages? and which one would u
recommend?

Cheers!

[Nnamdi Zobeashia]

Hey thats nice but truly dey but seem to be the same to me cos i ones
did it from 7.10 gusty to 8.04 hardy wiped everything including my
codecs so i thnk there are any differences the only luck i had was
that i created a /home partition in gusty so mu person files were not
touch or destroyed. Make sure u do a backup before doing thing later

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Zobeashia Nnamdi aka Pradeep

[Fanen A.]

Whether or not you have a separate home partition, upgrading will not
touch your data, whereas a clean install will.

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Sent from my mobile device

[Bobby]

Although some people do upgrade but its always advisable to do a clean install. The advantages of upgrading is that you dont get to do much setup, mostly packages from the previous version are upgraded to the newer release. so must of your files and system setup is maintained. the down side is that bad things do happen, especially if you have compiled or installed packages outside of the ubuntu repository and or if you had to rely on things like restricted drivers or ndiswraaper to get say wireless to work.

Best practice though ( and which is recommended by ubuntu) is to do a clean install. That way you start on a fresh slate. to make things easier  if u have a seperate home directory i.e the /home is mounted on a separate partition then most of your current settings would still be just as it were in the last release. since you would be using the same home partition when installing ubuntu 9.04.
 the down side of clean install is of cause the setting up of the system which can be a pain depending on how much setup goes into your computer (matter of taste really)

if you do decide to do an upgrade then you can use this as a guide http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading .

another downside of upgrading is that you need to have a very good internet connection for it to go smooth, so if you are on broadband. that fine its easy. you can also use the alternate cd of ubuntu 9.04 to upgrade. 

[Fanen Ahua]

Hey Bobby,
Have you used the new Ubuntu? What is your rating? I have severe internet access shortage nowadays, so I can't even dream of downloading it, let alone installing it, since it will take forever to get back my codecs and useful productive software.

Fanen Ahua Random quote: No animal should ever jump on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain he can hold his own in conversation. -- Fran Lebowitz

[Bobby]

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Hi Fanen
great to hear from you, yeah i have been using jaunty from alpha 6 all
the way to final release. so far its a great release. number one
improvement is the boot speed which has improved a great deal. the new
notification is also cool, although its still at the "hello world" stage
and still needs improvement esp in the area of configuration (has it is
you cant really configure how it operate) also miss the fact that its
not interactive like the old notification. but over all its cool. Other
improvements include better bluetooth support (although i still use
blueman)

The only area of regression is the the Intel Graphic card which is quite
buggy at the moment its quite slow and causes the system to freeze its
soo bad that some variance of Intel GMA 965 (Which is most affected and
which my laptop use) had to be blacklisted compiz wont work out of the box.
Aside the intel issue (which has some work around) i think jaunty is
another solid release which better hardware support (the broadcom card
for my compaq mini works ootb)
also the 2048 limit for intel cards has been fixed for my card
i have a copy of jaunty so u can drop by anytime. (with apt-cacher u
would be loaded in no time.) cheers

Fanen Ahua wrote:
> Hey Bobby,
> Have you used the new Ubuntu? What is your rating? I have severe
> internet access shortage nowadays, so I can't even dream of downloading
> it, let alone installing it, since it will take forever to get back my
> codecs and useful productive software.
>
>

> picFanen Ahua

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