`sudo do-release-upgrade` :)

In all seriousness, "guides" for setting up Ubuntu are most likely unnecessary or superfluous; they'll just go into some random area of "customization" that 95% of users probably don't need or care about.

If you already have an older version of Ubuntu, just run the command I mentioned, or go to System->Update Manager to handle the upgrade, and get on with your day. If you don't have Ubuntu, just boot the live disc and install it, and go from there.

> In all seriousness, "guides" for setting up Ubuntu are most likely unnecessary or superfluous; they'll just go into some random area of "customization" that 95% of users probably don't need or care about.

Guides that target a particular system are still useful (i.e. "How to install Ubuntu 9.10 on a Thinkpad x200") because they are guiding you through the stuff that doesn't work out of the box, even if they are minor issues. (Or hidden options to make something that 'works ok' or 'sorta works' into something that works well)

Or you can use the nice pretty point-and-click way via Update Manager. I did that last night. Worked fine.

Slicehost has an excellent assortment of articles for Ubuntu (as well as plenty of other topics). It looks like they don't have any for Karmic yet though.

http://articles.slicehost.com/

Slicehost don't officially support Karmic yet, they need to roll a special kernel for it. See: http://www.slicehost.com/articles/2009/10/28/ubuntu-karmic-k...

This is what I use when I need to setup a new server for a Rails app:

http://github.com/jnstq/rails-nginx-passenger-ubuntu