Well if this is so I'll hang on and upgrade. I do hope so - it will make it all much easier/less painful! Thanks, Mark. Bev.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rogers" mark@quarella.co.uk To: ALUG main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Firefox Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:21:14 +0000

Wayne Stallwood wrote:

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The main problem you have now is your upgrade path is pretty complicated because the supported path would be Dapper>Edgy>Feisty>Gutsy which is a lot of effort (in reality it may be possible to skip some of those but the official upgrade instructions are pretty clear in stating that only an upgrade from the previous version is supported). I am hoping that there will be a direct upgrade path between LTS versions so you would be able to do Dapper>Hardy next April..But I wouldn't hold your breath on that being the case.

My understanding is that this is indeed the case - 6.06LTS -> 8.04LTS will be supported in a single step.

I couldn't find anything "official" in a quick Google but this is a start: http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com/msg00756.html

"Hardy will be a special release in this respect since we'll be support upgrading from both 7.10 and 6.06. It is not trivial, but it's a high priority for us."

-- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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