I did an upgrade from 10.10 to 12.04 (3 upgrades in a row) today. A VM machine with not much RAM.
Between the 10.10 -> 11.04 upgrade, the Grub2 conversion went and tried to convert from the legacy grub to the modern grub file formats. At which point, on next reboot I was left with a "GRUB>" prompt :) Turns out that the VM "hardware" doesn't support certain types of hw probing that grub2 used... Ended up manually loading the kernel and initrd, booted and upgraded through to 11.10 and 12.04. Noticed grub updates with each dist-upgrade, and it boots great now, so I didn't investigate further. I did notice that each successive release runs more and more sluggish in the same VM. Mostly noticed a delay in speed of clicking on icons and seeing the response that the app was launching. Also notice moving or resizing windows was pretty sluggish. I'm going to try xfce or something that uses the VMware display pipe a bit snappier. (although I suspect graphics/window management is only a small part of the speed decrease) I haven't tested any of the actual apps in the distribution yet, other than to use Firefox real quick. I don't even know what is new at 12.04 other than the obvious Unity interface stuff. On 05/08/2012 04:52 PM, Jordon Replogle wrote: > Did the upgrade path, LTS to LTS, messed up gitosis and jabber on my dev > server. On my work desktop I went with XFCE and everything is working fine. > > -Jordon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 16:17:44 -0600 > From: ch...@chrislouden.com > To: linuxusers@socallinux.org > Subject: Re: [LinuxUsers] Ubuntu 12.04 > > Unlike many I really like gnome3. Specifically because i use the track > point on my Thinkpad and I disable the touchpad. It makes everything > flow nicely for me. Also I keep the theme quite simple. it is a pain to > customize though. > > I am kind of in the mood for a change though. Anyone using Xmonad with > it? I really like it just not on laptops. I might give xfce or open box > another shot first just to see what's new with them. > > On Tuesday, May 8, 2012, Todd Lyons wrote: > > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Jason Burris <spi...@oldskool.com> > wrote: > > Did an upgrade last night on a desktop/server. Looks like it > isn't picking > > up the network card now. I'll have to look into it tomorrow. > It's kind of > > disappointing considering this is supposed to be LTS and I've been > running > > Ubuntu on this box for 4 years, upgrading after every release. > > I did an upgrade on my laptop last week. No real issues, everything > still works. My only minor complaint is that there is no longer a > Gnome Battery app if you use the "no effects" desktop. You have to > use the Dash desktop in order for the Gnome Battery app to show up in > the status bar. I don't know why. > > ...Todd > -- > Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a > violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > > -- > > -Chris > > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
