[URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download"]ubuntu 10.04 LTS is here![/URL]
I've been very excited about this moment for months and I have completly forgot about it. I guess I am happy with my 9.4 installation. I shall upgrade tomorrow. Not sure if I will do an upgrade or a clean install as its only my laptop and I do not have any data on it.
I'm planning a clean installation. It's the LTS version so will be supported until 2013, so should be install and forget (I know that won't be the case but... ). Clean installation is easy for me because my data is on a separate drive which I don't format and just mount as home afterwards.
Looks good to me. Works for me and dual boots with 9.04 and anything else I have on the laptop. LTS good but when supporting older family members every little change such as boot / signon screen, colour, buttons on windows, sound control icon to name but a few has to be explained.
I have been using the encrypted \home and all now seems to work as expected. I could not get the 10.04 live cd 32bit to run on my uncle's (old) kit, the good news is that it is an acknowledged bug in launch pad while the bad news is that I will be leaving him on 9.06 for a while but to be honest that is not really bad news at all.
I chose not to encrypt. Part of the reason was that all of my personal data is on a separate HDD, which I can re-partition and encrypt using Truecrypt. I did wonder if my personal stuff is confidential enough to warrant the whole disk to be encrypted (is anyone's data?). Perhaps I'll try it, just to see how well it works.
I installed ubuntu 10.04LTS server on to a Compaq DL380 with RAID 5 (consisting of 6 x 146GB SCSI HDD) and encountered no issues at all. Previously I was running OpenSuSE 11.0, and I didn't have any issues with that either. This time I did encrypt the drive (LVM), so installation took a while but now it seems fine.
