[GNUz] Ubuntu, hackfest, SFD1

[Richard Tindall]

Cheers Jim,

Jim Cheetham wrote:

>For the next release (Breezy Badger) all you'll do is indert the new CD,
>you will be presented with an upgrade dialog.
>
>For Warty -> Hoary, all you do is insert the CD, tell the package
>manager that it's present (use Synaptic for a GUI method), then do a
>dist-upgrade ("apt-get dist-upgrade") or again, use the GUI.
>
>Rebooting from the CD and doing an install that way (new disk
>partitioning and all) is "wrong" - although arguably that process should
>detect what you're doing, and hint gently at the alternatives :-)
>  
>
I'll give it a go then, & probably do the desktop as well. Once I have 
time to suss the firewalling (routing) side of things, I'll finally be 
ready to migrate off RedHat 9!

So, to answer Nick a while back on CLUG list, these are the distros I 
run. I shall keep Gentoo moving as the next priority, for advanced 
learning. Will comment on the wiki too.

>>Have fun at the Ubuntu conference Jim. Would you be able to do a summary
>>talk for GLU? There is keenness here.
>>
>
>Sure, no problem. I'll keep notes :-)
>
Looking forward to it.

I hope the conference is going well over there. Just a matter of travel 
& show up?..

Thanks,

Rik

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Richard Tindall
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