“But, first and foremost, remember that these are test releases,
and are likely to still have significant bugs, omissions and
various quirks in them. They are not intended for use on production
systems!“Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Alpha 3: This is probably the one that
you have to be the most careful with, because they are changing the
default bootloader from legacy GRUB to GRUB 2 (aka grub-pc), and
that is a big, big change. If you don’t have your system set up for
multi-boot, you might not even notice the difference.”
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