Getting new laptop today... F12 Beta or wait for full release?

[Bill Davidsen]

Richard Shaw wrote:
> My wife is getting a new laptop[1] today and I don't want to put F11
> on it as F12 is almost here. At the same time, I don't want to leave
> Vista on it any longer than I have to.
> 
> Are there any serious issues with F12 Beta that I should wait for the
> full release?

If having a functional system is important, as in you use it for something which 
needs to work, I would go F11 and upgrade not less than two weeks after the 
official release. New releases tend to have rough edges knocked off for a bit. 
Actually, F11 is an issue right now, if you install from DVD and then try to 
upgrade, you find that dependencies are utterly borked. If you like cutting edge 
to the point that you can tolerate certainty that there will be issues, go F12 
daily, that, at least, will update.

Other note, LKML indicates that multiple people are seeing regressions in disk 
performance with 2.6.3[012], if that is important to you.

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