Ubuntu 9.10 Released 10-29-2009

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Improved bootup time among other improvements.

http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-910

Jerry

[fpirrone]

Jerry,

I'm running ArtistX on my Dell 470 Workstation, and just did an in-place upgrade from 9.04.  Simplest way is to execute:

update-manager -d

which will update the sources.list file and grab the right files from the right repository.  There were a couple of packages that would not update, but running that command a second time took care of all but one - flumotion, a streaming media application - which I uninstalled since it's not something I use.

Yes, bootup is lickety-split.  Counting off the time from GRUB, it appears that despite all the server process I'm running, the desktop is up and ready in about 30 seconds.

Frank

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I did the upgrade from 9.04. It took about an hour and a half to install with no problems. It does indeed boot up faster and seems to run faster overall. I had to add some repositories that got disabled with the upgrade and had to reconfigure the sound in Skype but for right now it seems to be running well. I did not do a fresh install because when I first put Ubuntu on the computer, I did not put the home directory on a separate partition. ( I am trying to figure out how to fix this, but so far have been unsuccessful. When you do the upgrade you get ext3 file system. I guess with the full install you get a choice of ext3 or 4.

Jerry 

[fpirrone]

Jerry,

If you have unallocated space, or a free partition, or if you shrink an existing partition, you can create a new one and format it ext4 copying over the contents of the current /home, and editing /etc/fstab to auto-mount the new partition at /home.

From that point forward, you'll be all set with subsequent upgrades or new distro installs.

Frank

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Ubuntu 9.10 Guide

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Karmic

Jerry