I presuming you really meant "upgrade". As opposed tor fresh install. My advice: don't upgrade. Install fresh . I have had problems upgrading to Hardy and Intrepid. Once I installed a fresh system, 95% of therm vanished.
The only problems I have had so far with a fresh Jaunty install were getting my old HP IIcx SCSI scanner to work with xsane and installing the new Flash plug-in for Firefox. Jaunty removed the "scanner" group so now you have to chmod o +x the scanner device file to get xsane to work with an HP IIcx. The Flash plug-in for Firefox worked once I manually installed the libflashplayer.so file into a ~/.mozilla/ plugins directory. There may be a few small bugs left in the new release. This is not unheard of in Windows XP or Vista either. My experience with Hardy and Intrepid is that anything serious gets an update fix fast. Jaunty fixed several nagging minor problems for me. Aisleriot's sounds no longer die off after a dozen games, requiring a restart. Sounds generally are one hundred percent better than Gutsy/Hardy/Intrepid The new nVidia driver now cooperates with Firefox, finally allowing me to run Gnome's special desktop effects without Firefox hiding the menu bar. Word Wizard On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 22:19 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Don't. > > I am sending this from a KDE desktop, because my Gnome desktop won't start. I > get my desktop background, but no Gnome panel. Kind of hard to run > applications when you have no panel. And Alt-F2 fails to launch a terminal. > Luckily the login option to start KDE instead of Gnome works. So here I am > with a sort-of working computer. > > OK, I have never used KDE before. But I am now poking at it because it's all > I can get working. Maybe y'all KDE dudes and dudettes can convince me to keep > it. If Gnome won't run, to hell with it, eh? > > Meantime, the dist-upgrade to Jaunty is a pile of problems. I recommend y'all > hold off. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
