toomanyhandles
December 29th, 2016, 04:07 PM
Hi all-
I have a Dell Mini 9 (netbook, 2GB RAM (maxed out), 32GB SSD, 1.6-GHz Atom, 1024x600 Intel GMA 950).
I am running 10.04 LTS at present.
I use the netbook mainly for moving photos from my camera while I am traveling, plus some light web surfing etc. It is a great low-profile platform for travel.
I would like to start to use this for programming my Arduino, which means I will need newer build of java and such (and there are security reasons as well, of course). So it is well past time to upgrade the OS, last package update was late 2014.
I see from:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
that both 12.04 LTS and 14.04 LTS are available and will have support for a bit yet.
For this low-horsepower platform, is there a reason to pick one version over the other? Support for modern dependencies until late 2017 will be fine for me for now, which is when 12.04 LTS goes EOL.
Any concerns about upgrading in place from 10.04? That is my preference, if at all reasonable. I could always blow it away and start over if the upgrade fails, but I would rather not.
Thanks for thoughts-
Brian.
I have a Dell Mini 9 (netbook, 2GB RAM (maxed out), 32GB SSD, 1.6-GHz Atom, 1024x600 Intel GMA 950).
I am running 10.04 LTS at present.
I use the netbook mainly for moving photos from my camera while I am traveling, plus some light web surfing etc. It is a great low-profile platform for travel.
I would like to start to use this for programming my Arduino, which means I will need newer build of java and such (and there are security reasons as well, of course). So it is well past time to upgrade the OS, last package update was late 2014.
I see from:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
that both 12.04 LTS and 14.04 LTS are available and will have support for a bit yet.
For this low-horsepower platform, is there a reason to pick one version over the other? Support for modern dependencies until late 2017 will be fine for me for now, which is when 12.04 LTS goes EOL.
Any concerns about upgrading in place from 10.04? That is my preference, if at all reasonable. I could always blow it away and start over if the upgrade fails, but I would rather not.
Thanks for thoughts-
Brian.