BREEZY or HOARY ? ? ?

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Henning Kilset Pedersen Wrote: 
> fre, 14,.10.2005 kl. 14.37 +0700, skrev LinuxMurah.com:

> > dear all,

> > 

> > currently I'm using HOARY and I have a plan to upgrade to BREEZY,
> but

> > after I read most email that came into UBUNTU mailing list, it seems

> > upgrading into BREEZY cause some problems. to all of you, is
> upgrading

> > to BREZZY good choice? or using HOARY still enough for next year?

> > because I'm running UBUNTU for server, so I must think twice before

> > cause some problems.

> 



A friend of mine upgraded to Breezy last night, and today he blogged
his experience for future reference.



The blog entry is here:



http://www.midtimod.dk/blog/index.ph...e-Edition.html



It's in Danish, I'll give a (rought) translation here:





> 

> I started upgrading my own machine last night, and of course I
> encountered the problem you always get when you want upgrades right
> away - getting the files took a long time. But OK - the machine was
> allowed to continue downloading overnight; at some point, it lost the
> connection to the Ubuntu server, and when I got up this morning, I
> could simply continue where it had left off. Half an hour late the
> upgrade was complete.

> 

> I must say I'm actually quite impressed at the smoothness of the
> upgrade process. You were able to work normally on the machine
> throughout the process, and the few times, where the upgrade process
> encountered changed configuration files, you were given a manageable
> display of the difference between your current file and the one Ubuntu
> proposed to replace it with, and this actually made it quite easy to
> decide which version to choose.

> 

> Just to make sure, I wanted to reboot the machine after the upgrade was
> finished. Here I encoutered the only actual error message - stating that
> Gnome had crashed. This is probably because Gnome had been upgraded,
> while it was running, so it hadn't been able tu shut down properly.
> This is not actually a problem, just thought I'd mention it so others
> will know what to expect.

> 

> A few cosmetic changes have been made in the desktop theme, but nothing
> serious (and yes, I still use Ubuntu's standard theme - the brown
> colours are realy delightful).

> 

> There are a few remarkable innovations in this version, and in the time
> to come, I'll attempt to have a closer look at some of them and write a
> bit about it - if I get the time. 



For what it's worth, it DOES tell that all is not woe concerning the
upgrade :-)


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