Bigbro's foray into the scary world of blogging
I upgraded one of my machines from Ubuntu Gutsy to Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) the latest and greatest from the Shuttleworth camp. The upgrade manager tool reminded me that a newer release was available, and upgrading was literally as simple as clicking the provided button and answering a few questions along the way.
Of the (perhaps) five questions in total asked during the upgrade procedure, two questioned me about upgrading or keeping a configuration file that I had allegedly changed, though I'm pretty sure I never changed it. Diff'ing using the provided options in the upgrade menu allowed me to double check that there were no material changes and that an overwrite was permissible. The other questions were regarding configuration files I definitely had changed. While I couldn't find a way to accept some of the new changes and merge back in my changes, it was a simple job to make a note of the filenames and put my changes back in after the upgrade procedure.
While I've not tested extensively, it looks like everything functions after the upgrade, including wireless networking, X, etc. The one gotcha at the moment is that Firefox is upgraded to a version that is not yet supported by Foxmarks which means I can no longer synch bookmarks to/from that machine. I expect this will be rectified soon enough, and of course the bookmarks that were there previously are still there. The Foxmarks blog suggests that a version for Firefox 3 is in beta test, so I won't have to wait long.
All in all, given the not-so-large sample set of one single laptop analysed, I can say that my experience with Hardy has been good. ftp.heanet.ie has served out over a petabyte of data due to the upgrade being released, so I anticipate that we'll be seeing a lot of Ubuntu Hardy in the wild as of now.
posted at: 08:52 | path: /technical | permanent link to this entry
