Yes. Sounds like fun.
Will you upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 tonight?
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Re: Will you upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 tonight?
#32question: how does the ubuntu upgrade process work? do you reinstall everything from scratch? or can you just apt-get your way to a new release?
Re: Will you upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 tonight?
#33question: how does the ubuntu upgrade process work? do you reinstall everything from scratch? or can you just apt-get your way to a new release?
apt-get alone doesn't do the necessary bootstrapping. The ubuntu upgrade manager should have a special upgrade option that appears, which does a bit more than a plain apt-get and does the trick.
Re: Will you upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 tonight?
#34Yeah, I checked out the known issues and found nothing that would impact me. I did do-update-release earlier today and it took about an hour while I did other things.
So far I've had no problems, but also haven't noticed many improvements.
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#35No longer have to recompile the Ralink Wi-Fi driver on my netbook every time there's a kernel update? Yes please. On a side note, is there a good summary of new features out there that isn't terribly outdated?
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#36Since I discovered Slackware I will never go back to Ubuntu or Debian.
I'm the other way around. 10 years ago I was quite happy configuring every little bit to pieces, spending days to get X11 to work properly with some weird graphics card. Now, I enjoy being able to install the (Linux) OS on a new laptop, and everything Just Works. I guess I'm just old...
Slackware is a bit different now that you only need to download a DVD and then pretty much all the software you want is installed, and most of the time software that isn't installed has a slackbuild which is pretty easy to install with its dependencies.
Ubuntu however is easier and works fine for me.
Re: Will you upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 tonight?
#37question: how does the ubuntu upgrade process work? do you reinstall everything from scratch? or can you just apt-get your way to a new release?
You don't do a full reinstall unless you want to. Just run 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade' in a terminal. (not 'apt-get update' nor 'apt-get upgrade')
Or start the Ubuntu Update Manager (System -> Admin -> Update Manager), which will display an option to dist-upgrade when one is available.
Re: Will you upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 tonight?
#38No. I always keep 1 version behind for stability reasons. Now i upgraded to 10.04 and will stick with it since it is LTS release.
Same, unless there is just something I really really want or need in the current version.
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#39Re: Will you upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 tonight?
#40I already upgraded to beta last month. Have been running solid on my home laptop. I don't use any close sourced drivers though.
So far the best feature I like is the new fonts. It really makes a difference in the overall user experience.