Hello all, hope everyone had a nice christmas!
These days i have decided to update the kid’s destkop, an ubuntu 7.10 system with many, many customizations, and a lot of games, to the new LTS version (8.04). Well, i was expecting some problems, but no the ones i had… after all the update procedure, when i did try to reboot the machine, the grub menu was wrong, pointing to (hd0,1) instead of (hd0,0). The X did not work (the drivers were not working anymore), and so all the compiz things (tell my kids that there are no effects anymore, try it). So, after some tests, i have decided to uninstall all nvidia related packages from ubuntu (restricted drivers, X.org packages, etc), and install the www.nvidia.com drivers. Well, did work…
So, now with the X in place again, i could test some applications (games), to see what kind of problems i still had. The next one was a little application that one of my sons uses to convert videos to the amv format (mp4 players), and seems like the ffmpeg software is not working like before too (something i need to investigate)…
Thats why ZFS snapshots are so important, because we don’t need to be afraid to update a system, actually we should upgrade it, to get new features and fix security bugs. But traditional procedures to upgrade the systems (user systems/Desktops), are not simple. That makes me think how a feature that lets the user upgrade the system, and with just a reboot returns to the old environment is important. Every time i need to upgrade that desktop i think: “How much time i have to waste”? Because is a one-way procedure, and i must leave the machine as it was: working! Ok, we can use two HD’s, partitions, etc… but i don’t want to handle a desktop machine like a server… ;-)
Well, all minor problems i think, because the games are working (all that they did try to play), but i did not expect basic problems like these i have just described here. But nothing that makes me change my mind about the Ubuntu distribution (that is very nice in this new version), but when OpenSolaris have a wine version like GNU/Linux, my kids will know about another Operating System. ;-)