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Upgrade Begins!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Software

I’ve been run­ning Kubuntu 6.06 LTS as my main OS on my home PC since it was released. Along the way, I’ve upgraded to KDE 3.5.5 and Amarok 1.4.3 and installed a vari­ety of pack­ages from unof­fi­cial sources. When I Edgy 6.10 was first released I looked into upgrad­ing, but held off. This was due to all the com­plaints and prob­lems I had been read­ing about where peo­ple had done sim­i­lar things to myself (e.g. installed apps using unof­fi­cial sources). While I was no longer liv­ing on the edge, I still have been keep­ing up with the com­mu­nity by read­ing Planet KDE. A lot of changes and new fea­tures sounded really cool but with all the hor­ror sto­ries out there and Dap­per being a Long Term Sup­port release, I fig­ured I was bet­ter off wait­ing to upgrade until I absolutely had to.

Last night, I decided I’d held off long enough. So I backed up all my data and started the upgrade. As expected, upgrad­ing from Dap­per to Edgy was painful. For­tu­nately I’ve got­ten some expe­ri­ence with the cli and was able to work past my prob­lems. I might still be miss­ing a few things (e.g. Flash player doesn’t seem to work at the moment) but over­all I’m rather impressed. My com­puter feels a bit more speedy and the fonts look enor­mously bet­ter. It’s really quite extra­or­di­nary how much bet­ter things look.

I’ve already started the upgrade to take me from Edgy to Feisty 7.04 and am very much look­ing for­ward to being on Gutsy 7.10 (not to men­tion Hardy 8.04 later this month). For now though, my eyes are burn­ing with sleepi­ness, so I’ll post this and catch some shut-eye while my com­puter down­loads all the pack­ages it needs to upgrade me to Feisty.

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