On 11/8/07, Monty J. Harder <mjharder@gmail.com> wrote:

On 11/8/07, Billy Crook <billycrook@gmail.com > wrote:
I think he was referring to the latest release, which they opened the gates for torrent downloads at approximately 9:05AM this morning.

And I have consistently avoided pushing the latest version of ANYTHING to a newbie. I tell people to use Ubuntu 7.04 and let seven months of patches update rather than using 7.10 and have trouble. Only after a release has been out a few months do I want to put it in the hands of someone who might let a bad first experience with Linux become their last as well.

We've seen specific horror stories that bear out the wisdom of the "wait to upgrade" philosophy. Let those eager beavers gamma-test the software. You can even be one of them, if you have a "non mission critical" box to play with, or do like Jim Herrmann last night and make a separate partition to hold the new OS version (the old one's there as a fallback, and you can diff config files and figure out what you changed last time....)

I think that's excellent advice. I recently talked my girlfriend into installing Linux, so we installed 7.10 within a week or so of the final release... I was eager to see it... and there have definitely been quirks. Nothing too serious, but I wouldn't have known how to fix them without using the command line. She's not quite there yet.