Ubuntu 5.10 to 6.06 Upgrade Experience

[Judd Pickell]

One little nit-pick. You must have a very advanced machine since you are
using Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird 3.5; which far as I know don't exist..
hahaha.. :)  (They are both only at 1.5)

On 6/4/06, Jeff Garland <jeff at crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote:
>
> Small contribution for those Ubuntu users thinking of upgrading to 6.06.
>
> Short story -- I went thru the process today.  It was completely
> painless -- it worked perfectly.  The upgrade has some really nice
> software upgrades including an upgrade to Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird
> 3.5. Do it!
>
> Longer story -- I was mostly a Mandrake user for several years (I still
> have a Mandrake machine), but recently I built a new AMD64 machine and
> installed the 5.10 -- 64 bit version of Ubuntu (thx for the prize at the
> dev meeting!).  I was a little disappointed since 5.10 had a very old
> version of Firefox.  Of course, compared to Mandrake the combination of
> apt and the graphical counterparts, Ubuntu is so, so, so nice to keep
> updated with the latest software.  After several nightmares with
> Mandrake upgrades, I was apprehensive, but the major upgrade from 5.10
> to 6.06 didn't disappoint.  I can honestly say that this was the easiest
> major upgrade of an OS/Applications ever in my life -- just kicked it
> off, kept working away for about 30 minutes while the downloads were
> going, and then one reboot, and back to business.  Sweet.
>
> In case no one noticed, this is a place where Linux has a major lead on
> MS right now -- yes, you can get 64bit Windows, but try to find device
> drivers and applications -- it's tough.  On top of that, the idea of
> installing a major OS upgrade and having it automatically upgrade all
> the apps -- well, that just can't happen on Windows. Anyway, many thanks
> to all the folks that made this one fleeting moment of software euphoria
> possible :)
>
> Jeff
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