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[Jim Cheetham]

On 11/09/2007, Persian <veganforlife at clear.net.nz> wrote:
> up to making all my stuff work without help. I always get depressed each
> time I need an upgrade as it takes so long to get stuff working and back

It seems like your big problem this time is that you've left it so
long since your last update and upgrade that you end up trying to do a
few years worth in one go, and then hit problems. Plus the knowledge
of how to get around upgrades to your versions is no longer current,
so people can't help as much. It's like visiting the dentist ...

You should update regularly - every month at least, for a non-critical
home desktop system. That keeps the number of updates down to a
manageable level each time, and reduces complexity (where complexity
leads to problems). It sounds like you really need to be on an LTS
version if you stick with Ubuntu, so install 6.06 and stay with it
until 8.04 comes out ... and look at upgrading to 8.04 sometime around
July 2008, while it's still fresh in people's minds.

-jim