02-02-2016, 03:50 PM
To Coastie,
You definitely cannot do an in place upgrade from LL2.8 to LL3.0. A reinstall will be in order then.
You will need to upgrade to the HWE kernel available in Aug 2016. Whether that will come via Install Updates for you or whether you'll have to manually update it via Install/Remove Software, I do not know.
For your concern of reinstalling programs, you might want to investigate the program called Aptik. It may help some in that regard. It can save settings, themes, programs list, PPAs, etc. Of course going to a different Ubuntu LTS base may cause some of the PPAs not to work. But I imagine the programs as part of the repository should work, and that can save you some time with your reinstall. That's what I'm planning to do.
Here's to Ubuntu one day having a rolling release.
You definitely cannot do an in place upgrade from LL2.8 to LL3.0. A reinstall will be in order then.
You will need to upgrade to the HWE kernel available in Aug 2016. Whether that will come via Install Updates for you or whether you'll have to manually update it via Install/Remove Software, I do not know.
For your concern of reinstalling programs, you might want to investigate the program called Aptik. It may help some in that regard. It can save settings, themes, programs list, PPAs, etc. Of course going to a different Ubuntu LTS base may cause some of the PPAs not to work. But I imagine the programs as part of the repository should work, and that can save you some time with your reinstall. That's what I'm planning to do.
Here's to Ubuntu one day having a rolling release.
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