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[Tom <question78741@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #78741 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/78741

    Status: Open => Answered

Tom proposed the following answer:
Hardy is an LTS release which means Long Term Support and that means it
gets all the bug-fixes and everything first before Jaunty.  Also Hardy
is the 'stable' release and this means it's the one that corporate
business users and many others will be sticking with until the next LTS
release in 2010.  The LTS support for 8.04 lasts until 2011 giving
people plenty of time to switch over.  Many people would consider moving
to Ubuntu's 9.04 (Jaunty) a down-grade because 9.04 doesn't have this
high level of support, although each release does get about 18months
support, leaving Jaunty with about 1 years support left.

Testing an upgrade by setting up a dual-boot (or adding one to an
existing multi-boot) seems a very sensible way forwards.  Ubuntu needs
about 15Gb to feel comfortable and can use the same swap-partition
that's already on your drive.  Also it can read the data that is already
on your main Ubuntu partition.  I think this would be an excellent way
forwards.  You could even take Kosmic Koala out for a test-drive this
way :)  Amongst distro-hoppers it's quite normal to have 1 stable OS and
then one or 2 partitions to try out other versions of linux on, often
the stable one is Ubuntu 8.04 :)

Here are some instructions on setting up a dual-boot with Windows but a lot of it is about the same making a dual-boot with another version of linux too.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot

We could help suggest one way to partition your drive to help make that
part easier.  Just let us know the result of

sudo fdisk -l

note the "-l" is a lower-case "-L", also it would be handy to know what
the size of your current partitions are as quoted by gparted (Gb & Mb
makes a lot more sense than number of cylinders ;) )

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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