Ubuntu 5.10 to 6.06 Upgrade Experience

[George Toft]

 > 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.


Funny you should mention that...the new HP computers I just bought with 
Windows XP Media Center Edition has a neat program in the control panel 
that will automatically upgrade all applications installed with 
InstallShield.  Looks like it's coming.

I cringe to try to upgrade (apt-get update; apt-get upgrade) even a 
Linux machine in this fashion as I seriously broke my main workstation 
in the middle of a major project.  Took several hours to fix it, so now 
this horrific task will get done only when I have no projects, which is, 
well, hardly ever :)


George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
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Jeff Garland 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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