Upgrading to Ubuntu Feisty (7.04)
April 26th, 2007
Over the weekend, I took the leap to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. This was a much smoother process than my last upgrade. My wireless broke again, but all I had to do was undo my “fix” for ndiswrapper, installing the latest version:
sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
sudo apt-get remove ndiswrapper-utils-1.8
After a restart, my wireless card was recognized, and Network Manager took care of the rest. I must say: so far this distribution is making me pretty happy. It’s really starting to feel like the promise: everything just works.
April 26th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
I agree. Everything just works
Ubuntu has rapidly become a very nice distribution.
I went through the upgrade to Feisty the other day, and it involved clicking two buttons. The upgrade manager informed me the new release was available (no need to run it with -c these days it seems), I had to click “upgrade”, and click to confirm “yes I’m sure, do it now”… a few hours and a reboot later, the system came up cleanly, working smoothly, with all my old settings etc still intact. Fscking beautiful.
Does what it says on the box folks - just works.