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Do you want to upgrade Ubuntu Noble Numbat from 24.04 to 24.04.1 or later? If so, then that means you are looking for how to upgrade Ubuntu system to a point release. The term "Point Release" to Ubuntu users is more or less similar to "Service Pack" known to Microsoft Windows users which is a whole system upgrade (bug fixes and improvements) within current release major version. That means, in this concept, to us Ubuntu 24.04.3 (Point Three) is more or less similar to Windows XP SP3. This tutorial will explain the procedures with an example of upgrading Ubuntu Noble from fresh install to Point Three.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 15, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Throwing Money at Lawyers Can't Stop Us (It Never Did)
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  2. BetaNews Has More or Less Died After Experiments With LLM Slop, Is Linuxsecurity Next?
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  3. Links 14/06/2025: FDA Changes Priorities, Cassette Data Storage From The 1970s
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  4. Gemini Links 14/06/2025: Steam Next Fest and Thoughts on Gemini
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  5. Site/Datacentre Maintenance Next Week
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  6. Bulgaria: GNU/Linux Near 10%
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  7. I Never Spoke to BetaNews. But BetaNews Wants to Ensure I Never Will, Either.
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  8. Online Search or Large Search Engines Aren't Working Anymore
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  9. Holidays and Breaks
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  10. Danish OpenDocument Freedom
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  11. When Abusive Law Firms (Working for Microsofters Against Us) Assert That Someone Writing in Social Media About Himself is Confidential Information
    There was no reason to throw "GDPR" into 2 SLAPPs; they know it, but the goal was to increase the cost of a Defence and lessen the incentive to challenge the SLAPPs
  12. Links 14/06/2025: Wars and L.A. Distortion Effect
    Links for the day
  13. Gemini Links 14/06/2025: Historic Ada Design and GeminiSpace.Club to Expire
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  14. Links 14/06/2025: India Plane Crash and Middle-Eastern War
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  15. Over at Tux Machines...
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  16. IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 13, 2025
    IRC logs for Friday, June 13, 2025
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

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