Dave Johnson on open web technologies, social software and software development https://rollerweblogger.org/roller/feed/entries/atom 2026-06-03T02:49:03+00:00 Apache Roller https://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/easy_upgrade_2 Dave Johnson 2006-11-19T21:51:41+00:00 2006-11-20T06:07:14+00:00 <p>I&#39;ve been itching to try <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a> so I decided to install it on my old Dell box, which as running Debian. I downloaded Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft, burned it to CD, backed up my data and booted off the new CD.<br></p><p>While I expected my Mac upgrade to go smoothly, I was expecting this upgrade to require a long morning of opening the computer, growling and cursing under my breath. That didn&#39;t happen. The Linux installers I&#39;ve used in the past didn&#39;t give me the option to resize partitions and I&#39;ve been using one big partition, so I was pleasantly surprised that the installer has the built-in ability to resize my partition without losing data. I was also happy to see that my video card was configured properly, which is a first for me -- previously, I&#39;ve always had to edit X config files to get things right. So far, it&#39;s thumbs up to Ubuntu.<br></p>