Comments on: How to upgrade Ubuntu

By: Donncha

Donncha — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:11:21 +0000

‘Fraid not Alexei. It doesn’t happen for me any more but I don’t know what I did to fix it.

By: Alexei Colin

Alexei Colin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:23:29 +0000

2 Donncha: did you find a way to get rid of this annoying behavior of having to press Alt-tab twice? It is driving me nuts! Thank you in advance!

By: Donncha

Donncha — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:25:38 +0000

I still use Swiftfox based on Firefox 2 and I noticed today that sound would work either in the browser or in “any other application”. Not both.

I remember having that problem before and lo and behold, I’m not the only one. Here’s the solution. Force Firefox to use aoss by editing /etc/firefox/firefoxrc

I may need to edit the config file in /etc/firefox-3.0/ too of course.

Weird, just noticed I need to press ALT-TAB twice to move windows. The first press brings up the window selector but does not move focus. That’s annoying.

By: Isaac Gyamfi

Isaac Gyamfi — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:12:10 +0000

I will like to know the packages you’ve send.I really want to kmow.

By: Ubuntu 8.04 - Cornell Finch

Ubuntu 8.04 - Cornell Finch — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:04:36 +0000

[...] my laptop, but with only 128mb installed and no capability for upgrades, I failed miserably. Reading Donncha’s post about updating Ubuntu to 8.04 Hardy Heron reminded me that I have a spare machine in the [...]

By: Donncha

Donncha — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:35:19 +0000

Jen – I’m still download packages so I don’t know how well it’ll work.

Previous releases did upgrade ok though so I have high hopes for this one!

By: jer@nyquil.org

jer@nyquil.org — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:19:49 +0000

I hope it went better for you than it did me.

You’d think that I’d learn; this is at least the 4th release in a row that I’ve tried to upgrade — resulting in a mess than I’m going to have to do a fresh install to clean up.

I’ve been jokingly referring to it as “Hardly,” because “hardly anything works.”

Overall, Ubuntu has been the least-sucky portion of my 10+ years with linux, but I really wish this stuff would be seamlesser. Gentoo was amazingly seamless, but I can’t put up with watching it compile everything from source every time.

heh.

By: Ubuntu upgrades and fundamental problems « Stochastic Geometry

Ubuntu upgrades and fundamental problems « Stochastic Geometry — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:45:29 +0000

[...] 1100, which should tell you why it’s xubuntu and not kubuntu there as well). So, no-brainer, other people have had no problems so just download the latest ISO and do a quick install, [...]