ubuntu feisty experiences

[Collins Richey]

On 12/9/06, Matthew Carpenter <mcarpenter at intelguardians.com> wrote:

> I did Hoary to Breezy and it was a breeze (har har).

More complex these days

> Servers are still on breezy, but I'll likely do a dapper or edgy upgrade soon.

If at all, Dapper is the right choice - LTS you know. For servers I
would pick an LTS distro and milk it until there are no more security
updates - ca. 7 years in this case.

Mean while, I downloaded the Feisty kubuntu  Herd1 ISO and installed.
I'm underwhelmed thus far.

1.The old problem with acquiring an IP address via DHCP at boottime is
back. I've seen this on a few *buntu and Debian setups. Sometimes you
have to restart networking manually toget a lease.

2. It's slower than eggnog. Edgy has the snappy startup and shutdown at least.

3. They flummoxed the nVidia support.
a. The restricted modules are compiled for a kernel that's on board
but not in the grub menu.lst. The package should take care of this.
b. The installation package no longer runs the nvidia-xconfig for you.
Interestingly enough, either Ubuntu or nVidia have changed the flash
screen at X startup to be more colorful. This seems to be the 9629
version of the nVidia drivers.

4. In the best Debian tradition, they're still offering a version of
vim that's brain dead (behaves like the original vi), so the first
thing you need to do is install vim.

Other than that, it's ho hum.

I still want to try resuming the original upgrade in a couple of weeks
to learn if the upgrade mechanism can every work.



-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.