Comments on: Groundhog Day

By: paintedjaguar

paintedjaguar — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 20:08:35 +0000

Steve, FYI Chrome browser will no longer update on XP either.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 07:53:01 +0000

I run Centos rather than Ubuntu LTS, so I’m not the one to ask about Ubuntu LTS. I virtually never use the “upgrade” feature, I have two root partitions that I flip between, when I upgrade to a newer major version (e.g. Centos 6 to Centos 7) I install it on the one I wasn’t using, then flip the Grub to point to the new place. I then reinstall whatever programs I need and copy my config files of interest from the old system to the new system but otherwise it’s a fresh install. On the dev/play machine I run Fedora simply because I can, but Fedora isn’t stable and isn’t designed to be.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 04:36:39 +0000

Steve, the upgrade took a while but required a minimum of intervention. The system starts a bit slower than before, but operates faster on my box. Unity and Gnome are both shells, so the upgrade should work with either shell, although the Unity shell is improved over the 12.04 version. It is probably a requirement for newer versions of python, perl, ajax, etc. that Google wants.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 08:52:47 +0000

Oops, never mind… I run the Gnome Shell. I know more recent versions of Gnome Shell will run with more recent versions of Ubuntu, but I doubt seriously the automated install that comes up in Update Manager these days will cope with the install. At any rate, I’ll have to do more reading.

The provocation to change now: Google Chrome is giving me a message that soon I will not be receiving regular updates because my Ubuntu is too old. Hmph. Doesn’t seem to bother them with Windows; Stella is still getting Chrome updates, and she runs (wince) Vista…

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 05:43:40 +0000

OT, Bryan and BadTux, tomorrow I’m about to “upgrade” from Ubuntu 12.04.5 to 14.04.3, both LTS … any words of wisdom before I start?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:03:14 +0000

In reply to Badtux. I kind of thought that Winnipeg Winnie actually died of embarrassment because more people believed her than Dr Masters. ;)

By: Badtux

Badtux — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 05:27:44 +0000

Amazing how people refuse to believe 99% of the climate scientists on the planet when it comes to global warming, but willingly accept weather predictions from a rodent. Tells you more about the American public than is perhaps safe for sanity.