I was all ready to roll my first attempt at some virtualized Ubuntu 14.04 LTS --> 16.04 LTS release upgrades except that "do-release-upgrade" couldn't find anything. Then I found this...
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes#Upgrading_from_Ubuntu_14.04_LTS_or_15.10
So, it looks like in place upgrades become available in a couple of months. That's probably a good thing since user feedback might show some point releases are necessary. However, it is possible to upgrade to the latest (and last?) 16.04 beta by adding the "-d" parameter. The complete command is simply:
"do-release-upgrade -d"
If you can't wait, that's the way to proceed and then you should be able to upgrade to the official release when it become available.
I would normally wait but this time around I'm going to do this so I can see how my Kubuntu (personal desktops) and Lubuntu (personal and client servers) nodes fair. I'm particularly interested in how the move to systemd is handled by release upgrades. If it blows up or I don't like what I see, I can always roll back the snapshot of the VM and wait for the official release. :D
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Keith C. Perry, MS E.E.
From: "Keith C. Perry" <kperry@daotechnologies.com>
To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 5:16:20 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] KDE Neon
Well, thanks to you reminding me the 21st was next week, I've put it in my calendar :) 'Gonna spin up a VM of my current system this week as prep.
I'll certainly report my findings.
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KP-
Well, thanks to you reminding me the 21st was next week, I've put it in my calendar :) 'Gonna spin up a VM of my current system this week as prep.
I'll certainly report my findings.
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KP-
On Apr 11, 2016 5:08 PM, Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com> wrote:
>
> > I've been using Plasma 5 on my Arch partition for some weeks now and
> > I do like it- amazingly they smoothed out a couple of things just
> > when I thought they couldn't. I'm looking forward to my Kubuntu
> > 14.04 upgrade to 16.04 to see how much of my KDE 4 settings persists
> > to Plasma 5. Should be interesting...
>
>
> I'm sure people would like to hear about that.
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