The Upgrade from OSX Lion to OSX Mavericks took quite a while (about 1 hour and 30 minutes). The installation got stuck towards the end in: “Less than a minute” for quite a while (it must have been more than 10-15 minutes).
I was tempted to hit the shutdown button Continue reading
I was reading a blog post the other day that in order to upgrade from OSX Lion to OSX Mavericks you need to first upgrade to mountain lion (paying the $20 upgrade fee). Checking the description by apple as pointed out here: http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/
it is evident that there is no such requirement:
You can upgrade to OS X Mavericks from Snow Leopard (10.6.8), Lion (10.7), or Mountain Lion (10.8).
So, I have backed up everything and I am going to start the upgrade process now!