jerky33
April 26th, 2008, 02:19 PM
Flawless, absolutely flawless, I only have a few apps installed, that are not from the Ubuntu repo's (lets face there is a lot of stuff in there) but still. I'm a sucker for eye candy so I'm running Compiz Fusion, as well as Avant Window Navigator (AWN), and expecting the hour long upgrade to at the very least, break AWN in some way, due to the fact that it was installed from a 3rd party repo. I also thought there would be a good chance that Copiz Fusion (which relies on proprietary nVidia drivers) would quite possibly be disabled, and then I would have to deal with getting the new drivers installed, and hoping that the maintainers of AWN had an updated version for Hardy.
Then I also have Picasa (I know it uses wine, and that isn't the coolest thing going, but its a great app, and deal with it) who knows what would happen to that.
Well as it shakes out (you probably saw this coming, what with the whole Flawless thing earlier) everything worked, not a single thing had anything that couldn't be fixed in a matter of seconds or minuets, below is a list of the minor, and I stress MINOR issues.
And here I am running the latest version of Ubuntu, an hour and a half after the start of the process with my full desktop no notable snags what so ever (it could have been shorter, but I have a 6 month old that was hungry).
Minor snafu's
- The upgrade GUI tool kept hanging on "Checking Package Manager", running the command line upgrade "sudo do-release-upgrade" did the trick.
- My network connection was unable to resolve my home file servers host name, and my fstab file had a share mapped using the name, I updated the mapping to use the IP address, and that fixed that problem.
- And for some reason the launchers that previously opened folder locations in AWN stopped working, app launchers still worked, so i set up a shell script that opened the same location.
Thats it the few problems I had, and their simple solutions.
Thanks to the Ubuntu team, and the great community that surrounds and supports it.
I made the switch to Linux about 6 Months ago (from windows), so this is my first successful OS upgrade ever, I'm simply amazed that things can work this smoothly.
Thanks again!
Then I also have Picasa (I know it uses wine, and that isn't the coolest thing going, but its a great app, and deal with it) who knows what would happen to that.
Well as it shakes out (you probably saw this coming, what with the whole Flawless thing earlier) everything worked, not a single thing had anything that couldn't be fixed in a matter of seconds or minuets, below is a list of the minor, and I stress MINOR issues.
And here I am running the latest version of Ubuntu, an hour and a half after the start of the process with my full desktop no notable snags what so ever (it could have been shorter, but I have a 6 month old that was hungry).
Minor snafu's
- The upgrade GUI tool kept hanging on "Checking Package Manager", running the command line upgrade "sudo do-release-upgrade" did the trick.
- My network connection was unable to resolve my home file servers host name, and my fstab file had a share mapped using the name, I updated the mapping to use the IP address, and that fixed that problem.
- And for some reason the launchers that previously opened folder locations in AWN stopped working, app launchers still worked, so i set up a shell script that opened the same location.
Thats it the few problems I had, and their simple solutions.
Thanks to the Ubuntu team, and the great community that surrounds and supports it.
I made the switch to Linux about 6 Months ago (from windows), so this is my first successful OS upgrade ever, I'm simply amazed that things can work this smoothly.
Thanks again!