Is There an Ubuntu 10.04 in Your Future?

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It isn't too soon to anticipate the next major release of Ubuntu is it? I hope not. Ubuntu 10.04 has a few surprises up its virtual sleeve in store for you. I can't tell you everything that's in store but you'll certainly have fun discovering some of them through this blog and my other writing venues as I obtain permission to print them. I did have the pleasure of speaking directly to one of the Ubuntu developers on Friday and will tell you a bit of what he told me about this exciting new release.

Ubuntu 10.04, aka Lucid Lynx, is an LTS (Long Term Support) release. This means that this version of Ubuntu will be supported for five years after its release. The last LTS was Ubuntu 8.04.

Ubuntu produces a new LTS release every two years.

For those of you who don't know, Ubuntu Linux was the brainchild and is the financial support burden for billionaire, Mark Shuttleworth. Canonical is the official commercial support company for the Ubuntu Linux distribution.

In this new release, Ubuntu will be even more enterprise focused with a continuation and enhancement of some new features that first appeared in earlier releases. Some of the new key features involve power management and virtualization in the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud version of Ubuntu Server. Some Ubuntu developers refer to Lucid Lynx as a "green" release due to these power management enhancements.

The developer promised me that careful Ubuntu watchers, like me, won't be disappointed by this release.

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Good to see the energy here — and the healthy caution from , and . Practical preparation will save time and headaches whether this is a desktop experiment or a server rollout. The checklist below focuses on low-risk, repeatable steps you can use now to evaluate 10.04 safely.

  • Make a full, tested backup (file-level plus a disk image or snapshot). Clonezilla or an LVM snapshot is far safer than experimenting without a rollback.
  • Create a disposable test VM (VirtualBox/KVM) and run your real workload there first. If you use virtualization in production, clone one guest and upgrade the clone.
  • Inventory installed packages and third‑party repos so you can restore the same environment or spot incompatible PPAs.
  • Update the current system and install DKMS so out‑of‑tree kernel modules (graphics, Wi‑Fi) rebuild automatically after a kernel change.
  • Disable PPAs and proprietary-driver installs before upgrading; re-enable only after confirming compatibility on the test VM.
  • For servers, stage the upgrade on a non‑critical node and keep a tested revert plan.

Useful commands to collect info and save state:

lsb_release -a
uname -r
sudo dpkg --get-selections > ~/packages.list
sudo cp -a /etc/apt/sources.list* ~/apt-sources-backup/
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
# example full-disk image (use Clonezilla instead of dd for safety)
sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=~/sda-image.img bs=4M conv=noerror,sync
# restore package selections after a fresh install
sudo dpkg --set-selections < ~/packages.list
sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade

If you hit trouble after an upgrade: boot an older kernel from GRUB or a recovery image, reinstall the proprietary driver packages (DKMS will help rebuild), or chroot from a live CD to repair packages. For older/legacy hardware test with a live session first — hardware detection there is a quick indicator. Keep tests small, document each step, and only promote an image to production once those tests pass.

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jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster

Personally i thaught Karmic had a lot of regressions from Jaunty. Hope they dont make the same mistake.

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khess 95 Practically a Master Poster

No, this one is cool. I'm a big Ubuntu fan but I call them on it when they don't do a good job. 9.04 was a bummer but 9.10 rocks! And 10.04, at least on the server end, is awesome.

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Indian-Art 0 Newbie Poster

Ubuntu 10.04 is definitely in my Future.

I am eagerly looking forward to it. I have always noted an improvement with every release.

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mirvine 0 Newbie Poster

We will have to wait and see, right now i use 9.10 and it runs great. hopefully many fixes are in place to added legacy hardware.

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