Life With Edgy
3 out of 4 of my computers run Ubuntu Linux. Breezy was all right, Dapper was great; when Edgy was released, I wondered, “Could it get any better?"
The press on the latest release, Ubuntu “Edgy Eft” 6.10, suggested that it was going to contain a lot of new approaches to the operating system, a radical departure rather than maintaining continuity. This made me nervous; everything worked well in Dapper, sometimes, in the words of Edmund Burke, “When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.”
However, curiousity got the better of me. I first took the plunge using my old HP Compaq nx7000 laptop. Rather than do a clean install, I opted to do an upgrade. In order to do this, I went to Applications >> Accessories >> Terminal and typed -
gksu “update-manager -c”
This then made the upgrade available.
The upgrade process itself was fairly painless.
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