[kwlug-disc] Upgrading from 12.04 to 14.04

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I installed fresh on another, pre-14.04.1, no problems I recall.

I think I came across a note of a problem from someone trying to upgrade 
pre-14.04.1 - that's when I first noticed the recommendation to wait 6 
months for the .1 release on any LTS, to give things such as upgrade 
glitches time to be worked out. As you note below.

Don't see any reason to upgrade my 12.04 workstation any time soon.

However ... given you are now a vbox/kvm guru, take a snapshot and try?

Perhaps this is an opportunity to try and vm off a copy of live of your 
favourite client, and take the upgrade for a test spin, first?

For desktop, noticed lxqt not long ago. I've thought about taking it for 
a spin, in a vm even - kde has been getting just too heavy for a long 
time now, not that there were many alternatives. (If gnome = show me 
what I have told you I want to do, and kde = here is what you can do if 
you wish, I prefer the latter.) The os/gui is just the human interface 
to the apps themselves, less an app in and of itself, IMO. Especially 
since I prefer cross-platform apps over non - less impediments to just 
getting on with things as I switch between computers / users. E-mail is 
e-mail, browsing is browsing, docs are docs ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lxqt
http://lxqt.org/

Note: this is for 'workhorse' machines, i.e. might not consider it for 
the media machine connected to the TV. More so for the workhorse some 
things easier at command line / some things easier via gui environment.

Suppose also is true if non-native-gui versions of graphical / hardware 
intensive apps are going to be used. e.g. As far as I know MythTV 
doesn't integrate better with gnome over kde, or if choosing libreoffice 
over koffice / abiword, or evolution on kde or kpim on gnome. lxgt looks 
to be a simpler gui / menuing system than all the cruft that accompanies 
kde. e.g. Not worth even trying to avoid akonadi / nepomuk / strigi et 
al, on kde. Most you can do is neuter it. It will insinuate itself in, 
one way or another, eventually. Irritating.


On 14-08-12 12:15 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> I am still on 12.04, since I usually delay upgrading until the first point
> release is out.
>
> Now that 14.04.1 is out, it is time to do some upgrades.
> On the server, there is the issue the PHP 5.5 being the default and some
> Drupal modules do not work with that well. So I am delaying some of the
> servers for a while.
>
> On the desktop I use Kubuntu (KDE), and I finally got the notice that it is
> time to upgrade.
>
> For those who upgraded already, is there anything that I should watch for?
> Something not working, missing packages, quirks, ..etc.?
>
>
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