<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I just upgraded both my desktop (AMD Phenom Quad, 4 GB RAM, ATI Graphics) and m laptop (Thinkpad X60S, 4 GB RAM, Intel graphics) over the last two days, and neither one of them gave me any issue.<br><br>The only real issue during the entire process was the extremely slow DL speed from the servers on Friday. Yesterday, I upgraded the laptop, and it went much quicker.<br><br>Everything works on both. I got one crash notice on each, both having to do with deprecated memory issues (ECC on the AMD64 platform) and sound (apparently an anomalous error).<br><br>I have KDE and Gnome desktops loaded on both platforms, and I've yet to find a problem with either desktop on either machine.<br><br>Dan<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div
style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Mike Harrison <meuon@geeklabs.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale@ale.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sun, November 1, 2009 8:45:08 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] Upgrading to 9.10 hosed my system :-(<br></font><br>
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, JK wrote:<br><br>> I just upgraded my excellent 9.04 Ubuntu box to 9.10, and now all has<br><br>Personally, I find that "upgrading" any OS is a roll of the dice,<br>unless the machine to be upgraded is very generic and has not been<br>tweaked, tuned or much additional software installed on.<br><br>Boot from CD, recover your personal stuff and try a fresh install.<br>Consider multiple partitions, a partition for your personal data.<br><br>> It is a sad state of affairs for a person who first built a 0.90<br>> kernel off floppies in 1992.)<br><br>Built a < 1.0 kernel in '94, with a lot of help from friends.<br>It took some real "cross your fingers" and wait karma.<br><br>And I'll be doing a backup and fresh install on my laptop soon,<br>when I have a break in the normal chaos of things to play.<br>I've been hearing good things about 9.10 Desktop from others.<br><br>I put a 9.10 server online yesterday just to play with,
installed<br>on an old Pentium 4 w/512k ram just fine. After playing with it,<br>loading a website using MySQL and PHP, it was running in approx 250k<br>of ram, a good sign.<br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Ale@ale.org" href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a></span><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a></span><br></div></div>
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