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