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Yesterday night I decided to upgrade my eMac to Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10 LTS). Previously my eMac was running Ubuntu Dapper Drake.
Even though I heard many horror stories about the upgrade, I decided to give it a try since today being a holiday for us I have the entire day to troubleshoot and fix things.
The upgrade process itself is very simple. You either start the update manager through the menu, or run (Alt+F2) gksu "update-manager -c".
After inspecting the installer reported it needs to download software somewhere close to 650Megs, and estimated the process to take close to 6hrs (since I have a moderate speed connection).
Inspite of hearing many horror stories about the installer dying in the middle of the upgrade process, I did not experience this behaviour, infact the upgrade was smooth, like a breeze.
Now that my eMac runs Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft), it has Firefox 2.0 (yes, not IceWeasel), features a new boot splash, its faster, better, smoother fonts (even on non GNOME applications like Firefox, Thunderbird).
Don’t wait folks, give it a try, it rocks!
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November 6th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
How did you even get it working in the first place? I can’t even get the live CD to load Xwindows properly.
November 6th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
What graphics card do you have? Mine is an Intel 945 GM.
If you have an ATI graphics card, chances are that the live CD does not detect the card properly. You might need to obtain the proprietary driver from ATI web site.
HTH.