Economy Size Geek

Ok I decided to start the process of moving over to Edgy.

For a change instead of doing it the Debian command line way I used the Ubuntu upgrade manager

gksudo "update-manager -c -d"


That triggered the update manager with the option to upgrade to the new release.

It took a while to download the 1200 packages that had been updated since Dapper. The process was pretty straight forward. At the end, it handled prompting me about config files that I had changed. This would probably confuse normal users but then I don’t they end up editing the config files as much as I did.

The only real problem I ran into was with my processor. Part of it was Ubuntu and the other part was my own fault. Edgy ships with linux-image-386. That kernerl doesn’t recognize multi core processors. Since I didn’t spend the money on dual core, to run single core in Linux I had to fix it. It turns out the solution is pretty simple - you must run linux-image-generic. My mistake was taking this opportunity to remove a bunch of old kernel images I had laying around. In the process I manged to mess up grub and my Nvidia drivers. After a little bit of dinking about, I manage to get everything up and running - and I’m now posting this from Firefox 2.0 (I thought it would be IceWeasel).

They have made some changes to the system. I haven’t really explored the new start up mechanism, but I already went through the fstab and noticed that everything now references UUIDs instead of the standard /dev/hd(a-z) labeling. This makes things a little more confusing to read, but apparently it makes the system handle boot order of drives a lot better.

As I spend more time with it, I’ll report more about my experiences - but so far so good!