Re: Ubuntu 6.10

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Author: Dazed_75
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Ubuntu 6.10
I found this on the ubuntu forums:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=286599

On 10/30/06, Michael R. Crusoe <> wrote:
>
> FYI, if you are going to upgrade to Edgy Eft make sure you have all
> ubuntu-* packages installed, especially ubuntu-minimal.
>
> My partner runs Ubuntu on his workstation and since he experiences a
> lot of stability issues with firefox I thought I'd upgrade him to 6.10
> to take advantage of the new Firefox 2.0 packages. 6 hours of upgrade
> hell later I tracked down my woes to the above problem.
>
> Other than this issue I'm very pleased with the release, but I worry
> that Ubuntu is straying from the excellent packaging work of Debian.
> `apt-get dist-upgrade` or equivalent should be all you need. Even with
> the fancy upgrade application issues like the above can crop up.
> (And no, I don't know how ubuntu-minimal got removed)
>
> On 10/27/06, der.hans <> wrote:
> > moin moin,
> >
> > apparently it released yesterday.
> >
> > Here's a review.
> >
> > http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=664
> >
> > Dennis just gave a presentation[0] on aiglx last Thu, so that was good
> > timing :).
> >
> > [0] It was a true open source presentation with lots of audience
> > participation and even Patrick getting up and leading the presentation
> for
> > a bit. Outstanding :).
> >
> > ciao,
> >
> > der.hans
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