10.04 vs 10.04.1 vs 10.04.2 upgrade? reinstall?
The answer is NO!!!
A lot of confusion has come after Ubuntu started releasing point releases. Not many yet know what a point release is. Well a point release is a release that includes all the updates up to the release date and nothing more. That means if you upgrade 10.04 on the release date of 10.04.1 and then run a “sudo apt-get autoremove” you will have exactly 10.04.1. There is no need to search for help specifically for 10.04.1 because you have the same as 10.04.
Why do they do this?
When installing 10.04 the upgrades for the time period between 10.04 and 10.04.1 contains 250 mb of updates, which on my eee took 6 hours to upgrade. By 10.04.2 that will likely be 500 mb of updates and 10.04.4 = 1 GB = 1 day to upgrade . By installing 10.04.’point release number’ the time of the install takes 30 minutes or less and a smaller amount of updates is needed. Also the strain of the Ubuntu servers are relived. 700 mb download + 1gb of updates vs 700 mb download.
Conclusion:
Cheaper and easier to use, cheaper and easier to distribute :)
