[montreyj]

Has anyone tried upgrading an End of Life release of Ubuntu to the most recent LTS release 8.04? Just want to know the steps you took and which version you upgraded from.

[namenotfound]

Get 9.04, it has better features. OpenOffice.org 3.x (instead of 2.x) and Firefox 3.x (instead of the Beta version). And in my opinion, it's more stable than 8.04 LTS

[Ntichrist]

9.04 is nice but i would checkout the live cd first. There are some bugs being worked out still, especially with ATI. A good test is to check out a youtube video and wait about 5 minutes. If it kicks you off the network and starts making noise (similar to the startup noise) then you may want to hang with 8.04 or 8.10. check out the ubuntu forums of course

[namenotfound]

I haven't noticed a problem with streaming video and 9.04. I go on hulu.com all the time, and also visit YouTube from time to time.

[Ntichrist]

Do you have ATI for graphics? I may have written it off as an ATI prob due to minimal reading and it working with my nvidea. I would like to know though because I loved the look and feel of it.

Also side note: my 8.10 install would give me trouble connecting until I installed the third party ATI drivers

this is my lspci output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Device 5a31 (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 11)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 IDE Controller
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc SB400 AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS400 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)
02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02)
02:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)


Toshiba Satellite M45

[avisitor]

I've upgraded a 6.06 LTS to 8.04LTS with no problems. Backup first, though.