In a way I am glad it is not just me that has had problems with the edgy upgrade. This indicates that many have not had a smooth ride. The crazy thing is, when I upgraded a machine much earlier on when edgy was in development, it went really smoothly.
On the plus side, I have just installed Beryl and it looks really cool. However, I will probably not use it much. After the initial wow factor, it does very little to improve the actual use of the desktop.
Now that Ubuntu edgy is out, I feel like installing Ubuntu on my home server. Before I do, I need to make a list of services that I currently use, and then make sure that I have backed up any data that I will need. My home areas will be easy as they are all on one partition. However, I have a few applications that are supported by a database back end that I will need to take care of.
If anybody reading this, with some experience of migrating operating systems, has anything to tell me, then please post a comment below. Your help will be appreciated.
Here is a list of services that I need to have on the new machine.
/etc/I won’t suggest that this list is complete. I will add to it as I prepare for the change, and then I will hopefully have a reasonable plan to minimize downtime of the server. Also I can use the Ubuntu Server Guide as a reference.
Through my work, I have come to know Simon Brown. He comes and helps with some aspects of our computer systems. Potentially fairly dull. However, I always enjoy talking to him about his main interest which is Diving. I remember a few years back he was telling me how he wanted to buy a new underwater camera. Now he has that camera, and is enjoying a second career selling the pictures.
Due to changes in where I work, I may not see much of Simon in the future, so I thought that I would write this mainly as a reminder to myself. However, if anybody has need of an underwater photographer, I am sure Simon would be interested, for the right price 🙂
Well the new version of Ubuntu is out. I have almost been on the edge of my seat waiting for this. I did upgrade a vmware instance some time ago, but have waited until the official release before upgrading my main machines here.
In order to save a bit of time, I downloaded the alternate CD image and burnt it to a disk. I also made sure that my squid proxy was set to cache large files and had reasonable size cache to hold them all. The first attempt at an upgrade was to use aptitude. In short, it failed miserably. Lots of dependency issues and then failing completely.
At this point I was a little disappointed. My experience of Ubuntu had been positive up to this time. It seemed to be coming apart at the seams.
I then tried the /cdrom/cdromupgrade command. Success! well at least with one machine. I have my second machine running now, so hopefully soon I will have both machines up to date with the latests Ubuntu funkiness soon. All that is left to do is sort out my server! More about that soon
For some time now I have used an ascii representation of the Debian logo in the footer to my emails. As I have now switched to using Ubuntu for my home desktop needs, I was thinking of replacing the Debian logo with an Ubuntu one. After a quick search, I found that I could not find any ascii logos for Ubuntu. The only thing for it was to try and make my own. This is the result.
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|/OIt does look a bit better in my console, but any suggestions for improvements to this would be welcomed.
I have been having a little tinker again with povray. This time I needed a little Perl to help me out. All I need to do now is work out the maths to calculate surface normals. Anybody got some suggestions?