As release date closes in...

[philinux]

Will be upgrading from 11.04 to 11.10 on release day!

Actually not a good idea upgrading on the day as the servers can get overloaded.

Better to do it the day before or wait 24 hrs.

Clean install is fine. Using a torrent is the best way to get the iso.

Or get it now and use zsync to keep it up to date.

[ubupirate]

Actually not a good idea upgrading on the day as the servers can get overloaded.

Better to do it the day before or wait 24 hrs.

Clean install is fine. Using a torrent is the best way to get the iso.

Or get it now and use zsync to keep it up to date.

Even on a clean install, when you do the updates it can take forever as the servers are overloaded normally. I plan to wait a few days after release before installing, but I will download and burn to DVD the second it's released to have it ready to go.

And yes, torrent is highly recommended. It's a great way to share Ubuntu, as I usually download all available editions on each release and seed them each up to about 15.0-25.0 ratio.

[aaaantoine]

If I were patient, I'd wait a month before upgrading so that the most common kinks could be worked out. However, if the last release cycle was any indication, I'll upgrade a week before release.

[viperdvman]

Even on a clean install, when you do the updates it can take forever as the servers are overloaded normally. I plan to wait a few days after release before installing, but I will download and burn to DVD the second it's released to have it ready to go.

And yes, torrent is highly recommended. It's a great way to share Ubuntu, as I usually download all available editions on each release and seed them each up to about 15.0-25.0 ratio.

This is one of the big reasons I want to wait a month before I install Oneric to my 3rd OS partition. Not only will most of the release bugs be ironed out, but the servers won't be as hog-wild with a lot of early birds downloading it. I usually don't mind doing direct downloads of Ubuntu, but I'll very likely torrent it as it's usually faster.

[Linuxratty]

So many bugs in compiz and Unity and last minute regressions. Yesterday and today.

I'll be moving to Kubuntu.Xubuntu or to Bohdi when 10;10 is no longer supported.

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

I will try it out in VMware or Virtualbox to see what the improvements are; however, I doubt that I will adopt it as a primary OS for my laptop computers. I still prefer to use the LTS Ubuntu releases for laptops, or CentOS and Debian for servers.

[krapp]

I hated Natty. Oneiric has been a pleasure, and the changes in Unity shell have all been quite pleasant.

For all those using the beta, what's the best thing about Oneiric?

[mamamia88]

I'm sticking with 10.04 until next lts. tried 11.04 and didn't like it and recently reinstalled 10.04. not going to go through 2 upgrade processes just to get 11.10

[wolfen69]

I'm already running 11.10. But I always do clean installs. I hear too many horror stories about upgrading going bad.

[wolfen69]

For all those using the beta, what's the best thing about Oneiric?

Seems very stable to me, and fast.