Jonathan Bringhurst on 26 Oct 2007 14:34:13 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Gutsy

  • From: "Jonathan Bringhurst" <fintler@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [PLUG] Gutsy
  • Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:34:07 -0400
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Same kind of experience here. I'm actually running a small time web
server at Temple University that started off with an install of Breezy
Badger and was upgraded to each release including Gutsy. I haven't had
any problems with it. Fairly surprising since a ton of stuff was
modified.

-Jon

On 10/26/07, JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote:
> I just finished an upgrade to Gutsy on my "kitchen" laptop.  It went
> flawlessly, and I now have a MythTV frontend there too.  (It works, but
> this laptop is an old Latitude P3 with 512M RAM--a tad slow for TV.)  If
> I have any complaint about the upgrade, it's that it kept stopping to
> ask if I wanted to overwrite various modified config files.  Of course I
> appreciate that, but you can't just fire and forget, you have to babysit.
>
> I love that you can now drag&drop "buttons" in the task bar to reorder
> them.  Being the creature of habit that I am, that's a critical feature.
>   Oh, and TuxPaint has some new brushes and a better organized "stamps"
> tool, which my 3.5yo likes.  I don't have any hardware new enough to use
> the new eye-candy, which usually just annoys me anyway.
>
> But the really interesting thing is that this laptop is old and has no
> working CD ROM.  So the initial install in Fall of 2006 was via a Debian
> netinst floppy set which I hacked in mid-stream to install Dapper
> instead.  I then later upgraded Dapper to Feisty (which required an
> intermediate upgrade to Edgy IIRC).  Now I'm running Gutsy.  And it
> just...works.  Try that with an RPM based system.  Or a non-Linux
> system... :-)  (How does Solaris do with that?  I've never tried.)
>
> :-)
> JP
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