[ale] Ubuntu Desktop 13.10

[Wolf Halton]

I updated Thursday night to Ubuntu to 13.10 with no problems on my 6-yr-old
HP laptop, mostly while I was at Melton's.  It was not quite a lights-out
install. I had to approve keeping my edited config files for 2 services.  I
wish the install script would just keep edited configs and roll on.

Wolf Halton
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On Oct 19, 2013 9:37 AM, "Edward Holcroft" <eholcroft at mkainc.com> wrote:

> Just upgraded my 3 home Ubuntu boxes to 13.10.
>
> Was a seamless upgrade on 2 machines (64 bit). On one 8 year-old notebook
> that gets used heavily for Facebook etc every day (32 bit) everything froze
> up half way through. It seemed like the CPU became overheated during
> installation - was very hot to the touch. Could run a command line and top
> did not reveal anything out of the ordinary like a CPU spike. I was unable
> to get dpkg to release the sources.list file no matter what kills I tried,
> so did a reboot followed by live-DVD repair. The repair option is pretty
> impressive - found the broken 13.10 installation and fixed it while keeping
> all data files intact as well as the Doze 7 on dual boot left unharmed.
>
> Seems to be a minor upgrade, I'm not seeing any real visual differences,
> other than a bunch of new lenses, which I don't really use extensively. New
> kernel of course, and latest versions of various apps. This leads me to
> think about 14.04, which I would guess, would be another minor upgrade,
> given that it's LTS. If that's the case, and I cannot see Canonical going
> ott on an LTS release, it'd make for two fairly boring releases
> consecutively, which is interesting given the recent releases that have
> been bleeding edge to the point of being sub-functional if not broken in
> some areas. I'm kinda pleased they focused on just getting things stable
> rather than going with the threatened move to Mir at this point. I recently
> switched my work desktop to Wheezy stable (bit of an overreaction I guess,
> I could've dropped back to 12.04 or so, but I've always wanted to try a
> Debian desktop) 'cos Unity was just breaking on me way too often. It'll be
> really interesting/surprising if they bring Mir in for 14.04.
>
> On the 32 bit version, Chrome still seems to be broken. This issue from
> 13.04 is still there:
>
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/359530/google-chrome-update-wont-install-due-to-unmet-dependencies
>
> Although you can make it work if you try, it'd be nice to see a fixed
> version released.
>
> Another issue that came up on one of my 64 bit boxes (although I don't
> think it's a specifically 64 bit issue) is too little disk space on /boot,
> so the upgrade failed until that was addressed. I had too many kernels in
> there and had to delete the old ones. I used this handy script that I've
> used many times on my Amazon Ubuntu servers:
>
> dpkg -l linux-* | awk '/^ii/{ print $2}' | grep -v -e `uname -r | cut
> -f1,2 -d"-"` | grep -e [0-9] | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge
>
> from here:
>
> http://tuxtweaks.com/2010/10/remove-old-kernels-in-ubuntu-with-one-command/
>
> I see this as an unacceptable error on a distro aimed at easy
> installation, noob demographic. Most noobs I know would've run a mile at an
> error like that. Of course, if this was fresh installation, I would not
> have experienced this issue since there'd be no old kernels installed. But
> why on earth would there be a limit (and apparently a relatively low one at
> that) on /boot on a distro of this nature?
>
> Anyway, that's my quick first experience with 13.10 ... it works, a bit of
> a yawn, frankly. Nothing that jumps out at me to say don't touch this.
> Still a great distro for first timers, and even experienced users as long
> as Unity can hold it together under high user demands.
>
> cheers
> ed
>
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