On 10/2/06, David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see the beta release of 6.10 is now available. > http://www.ubuntu.com/news/EdgyBeta > > Is anybody being brave and giving it a go? ;-)
I upgraded one of my two Dapper machines on Saturday. I had one problem that a newbie would have had a great deal of difficulty getting over. One package, Network Services Caching Daemon, wouldn't upgrade and the whole processes threatened to end right there, leaving a half-finished, useless machine. I had to edit a dpkg script and an init script. I also had one problem that caused about a dozen or so python packages to be held back, which was easier to work around (remove some python2.4 packages and reinstall). Both bugs have been reported and I commented on them. Not many people use nscd, I'd imagine. It's mostly to improve performance of LDAP. Since then, the machine has been running fine, except for one crash that brought down Xorg. I've also reported that one. All-in-all, it has been the usual beta-level problems. The changes aren't huge, as far as I can see. Firefox is at 2.0beta3 and there's an entirely new (and invisible, to the user) startup system called upstart. If you're techy and feel confident you can get out of hot water, give it a try. If not, and you still want to see it in action, download the LiveCD and play with it that way. -Eamonn -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
