Ubuntu upgrade when south.

[JinLien]

<-- though was being smart and changed my sources link from hoary to dapper (by pass breezy), and tried to upgrade my kernel and it broke X. Rolled back to hoary didn't help. I ended up back up my files and installed breezy that worked perfectly fine. I was expecting a small hiccup with my older nvidia video card, but the Ubuntu team seemed to iron out the problem in their 5.10 release so the installation was smoother than any other Linux distro that I had tried in the last 8-9 years.

I now am happily surffing using firefox 1.5 after 2 minutes of following ubuntu wiki instruction for the upgrade.

 

[Nothinman]

From what I hear each inbetween version of Ubuntu is extremely broken, they have to push a lot of major changes in a little amount of time to make the 6mo release dates. I wouldn't recommend them unless you're willing and able to fix all kinds of odd configuration and packaging problems.

 

[JinLien]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
From what I hear each inbetween version of Ubuntu is extremely broken, they have to push a lot of major changes in a little amount of time to make the 6mo release dates. I wouldn't recommend them unless you're willing and able to fix all kinds of odd configuration and packaging problems.

Thanks for the head up.

I found out MPlayer isn't supported in Breezy, and I'm going to live with out MPlayer for a few months till Dapper is ready because I'm not going to spend time hunting the codecs.

 

[Nothinman]

I'm not a big of totem, but should totem with either the xine or the gstreamer backend cover 90% of all of the necessary codecs?