Anyone upgrade Ubuntu yet?

Post by **Patrick** » Tue May 30, 2006 8:09 am

I upgraded my laptop to Dapper Drake over the weekend and have some issues. The biggest problem is with the new Network Manager application. Also my virtual deskotps in KDE are missing even though it appears to be correct in my desktop preferences menu.

Anyone else having issues?

DaveQB · Post by **DaveQB** » Tue May 30, 2006 6:18 pm

I have been tempted to, but I am waiting for the Official release

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Tue May 30, 2006 7:49 pm

DaveQB wrote:I have been tempted to, but I am waiting for the Official release

Yeah, I also wait for the final release before I test it out.

I like the quality of a stable release

Wally Balljacker · Post by **Wally Balljacker** » Tue May 30, 2006 9:17 pm

I've been on Dapper since Flight 5 without any issues. The quality of Ubuntu is amazing considering how fast they pump these releases out. The hardware detection also leaves pretty much every other distro in the dust IMO, with the exception of KNOPPIX.

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Tue May 30, 2006 11:06 pm

My experience with upgrading releases has more or less been this - sh!t. Every single dist upgrade I've done has broken something that I cannot fix by installing/uninstalling. If I decide to keep kubuntu on my lappy, I'll be doing a clean install.

My clean install of Dapper on a spare disk is fine though - in fact, many of the problems which used to really irk me have disappeared.

DaveQB · Post by **DaveQB** » Wed May 31, 2006 12:19 am

Yeah I have to agree.

Although I have never done a dist-upgrade on Kubuntu yet (besides to get the KDE 3.5.2) so I might have better success.

From what the boys said on the podcast, going from Hoary to Breezy was painless.

mrben · Post by **mrben** » Wed May 31, 2006 4:11 am

I've been running Dapper on my laptop and my desktop without any major hiccoughs for a while now, although I run the 'vanilla' Ubuntu, rather than Kubuntu, so I cannot comment on the quality of upgrade there.

Oh, and the new upgrade manager app (http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=14) looks like it could be really nice

doublejoon · Post by **doublejoon** » Wed May 31, 2006 6:01 am

Wally Balljacker wrote:I've been on Dapper since Flight 5 without any issues. The quality of Ubuntu is amazing considering how fast they pump these releases out. The hardware detection also leaves pretty much every other distro in the dust IMO, with the exception of KNOPPIX.

Hmm I wouldn't quite say that. PcLinuxOS is right up there in the hardware detection dept (Considering it runs a very old kernel 2.6.12)It has ALOT of 3rd party modules already installed and ready to to

madwifi for my atheros based wireless card works right out of the box

godzero · Post by **godzero** » Wed May 31, 2006 8:12 am

I've been testing it since December (kubuntu).
There's been alotta gotchas along the way. Some real deadly ones.
I'm not too happy with the polish level in kde 3.5.x... each release has had some display related regressions. I'm willing to overlook them so the devs can work on 4.0.
I'm really looking forward to kde 4.0.
Dapper has been more and more stable the last month or two. The last Release Candidate install disk gave me no trouble, and worked much better than the last install disk for me.

DaveQB · Post by **DaveQB** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:06 am

I think I'll be dist-upgrading tonight. [a few hours from now]