[ubuntu-us-mn] ** Saturday ** Install Fest !!!

[Anthony Hook]

There are lots of ways that you can do this!

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem

A few ways above you can back up your things using TAR, throw it on an
external drive *just in case,* you can also use a few tools in the
repositories.  Another thing that I've become fond of is having my
/home on a separate partition, that way I can make sure the installer
doesn't touch /home and just replaces the actual operating part.

I'd love to attend, but I'll be up in Superior for the event.  I'd
join the #ubuntu-us-mn channel on Freenode, or maybe a stream would be
fun too.

Thanks, and good luck!

-Anthony Hook

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Colin Harrington
<colin.harrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm planning on upgrading to 10.10 (from 10.04) because after doing some
> research it has better support for multi-touch, and it looks like the
> hardware is better supported in newer releases.
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro6-2/Maverick
>
> Is there a decent way to backup my entire ext4 partition so that I can
> restore if I needed to?
>
>
> Colin Harrington
> colin.harrington at gmail.com
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Tony Yarusso <tonyyarusso at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Fred H Olson <fholson at cohousing.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Any one care to offer reasons to install 10.10 instead of 10.04
>> > other than simply it's the latest?
>>
>> Honestly, I'm probably going to keep running the LTS on most of my
>> stuff too, mainly because I'm running low on time to keep upgrading
>> the "fleet".  That said, there are a couple of nice things in 10.10,
>> but nothing earth-shattering - LTS+1 releases often are about putting
>> architecture in place for later features.  Two things I will
>> highlight:  Evolution runs significantly faster, and the installer
>> supports btrfs.
>>
>> > Also anyone care to offer an opinion about the
>> > Gnome versus Unity UI controversy?  My current hardware probably
>> > does not support Unity anyway but I'm curious what people are thinking.
>> > See:
>> >
>> > http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/102610-is-unity-the-right-interface.html
>>
>> I think it's probably premature to make a lot of those judgments right
>> now.  Unity is still rather young, and the general opinion I hear is
>> "it's kind of sub-par right now, but we expect Unity next spring to be
>> better than gnome-shell next spring".  We'll see if they're right; I
>> don't know.
>>
>> > I vaguely remember a meeting a while back there was a presentation
>> > during which there was discussion about changes to the Ubuntu desktop
>> > but I could not figure out from the Web site what meeting that was.
>> > Maybe May 29th, 2010 Tony Yarusso, Ubuntu LoCo Team Leader talking
>> > about Ubuntu 10.04?
>>
>> Yeah, that sounds like mine.
>>
>> > Anyone remember that presentation and how it relates to Unity?
>>
>> I didn't say anything about Unity at the time - it just wasn't on my
>> radar at all.
>>
>>  - Tony
>>
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