Getting Feisty

[Jamon Camisso]

Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Well, it took about 36 hours but I was finally able to do the 'online'
> upgrade of Kubuntu from 6.10 ("edgy") to the newly released 7.04
> ("feisty") on my laptop.
> 
> It's not a process I'd recommend to the impatient, or those who want to
> know what's going on. I expected Ubuntu servers to be really busy on the
> first day of release, but there were a few surprises.
> 
> 1) Upgrades, apparently, can only be done online, and not from a CDROM.
> This means that the benefits of bittorrent, that would be really helpful
> at high-download times, are lost to upgraders. (update: apparently this
> is now possible but you need to download the "alternate" CDROM and the
> process is a little tougher for KDE users.)
> 
> 2) The Canadian download server seems to have really low capacity, which
> hurts because you can't choose what server to use for the initial
> upgrade. No menu choices; it picks one for you and that's it. My upgrade
> process crashed six times because the Canadian server would simply
> refuse connections at various points through the days. Once the core
> upgrade is complete, you can choose a different country repository and
> things work more normally. For this reaso I would suggest purging your
> system of large non-essential packages before doing the upgrade, them
> come back and install them later when you can choose the best repository.
> 
> 3) Every time you restart the upgrade system after a crash, it has to
> re-download a whole bunch of initial files. While the main software .deb
> files are cached once you get going, about 15-20 minutes of downloading
> has to be redone every time you start the install process, even if it
> just stopped on you. On the good side, if it crashes midway through a
> download of a file, the system can recover the partial download and pick
> up where it left off.
> 
> Visually things are a little different, but there's little that's earth
> shattering. It's nice to be up to OpenOffice 2.2 and the newest KDE.
> Some icons such as network and battery status are different. But this is
> certainly more of an incremental bump than a major shift in anything.

deb http://debian.yorku.ca/ubuntu main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://debian.yorku.ca/ubuntu main restricted universe multiverse

Jamon
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