Migration from Mandriva to Ubuntu
The promise of easy OS upgrades with Ubuntu has lured me to make the switch. It was a pain to upgrade Mandrake versions last time I did it. People always talk about how easy it is with Debian/Ubuntu. I’ve been pretty impressed with the online help for Ubuntu too, way better than I’ve seen for any other Linux distribution. So I’m making the painful switch. If you see the website not working, you now know why. I’ve realized, more than halfway through this, that it was much easier to upgrade from one version of Mandriva to the next than it is to go from Mandriva to Ubuntu. Package names and configuration file locations and defaults are all just different enough to make it a very manual process. How sweet it will be go upgrade from Ubuntu Breezy Badger to Ubuntu Dapper Drake with a few apt commands (and it better work!!!!)!
Here’s a few web pages that have helped me out so far:
- Postgresql backup
- Ubuntu postgresql configuration
- What in the world was going on with PHP? Just Firefox caching stuff (that only wasted about a half an hour. Grrr.)
- And of course, the source of all Linux knowledge.
Posted by Bryan on April 17, 2006
Comments
Bryan April 26, 2006 at 11:54 p.m.
OK, I just wrote way too much about why I switched:
http://murdockfamily.homelinux.org/wh...
The short answer is in the fist few sentences of this post.
Nols April 24, 2006 at 1:39 p.m.
Why did you pick Ubuntu. Hopefully sometime in the near future I'll be setting up a linux system. I was just wondering how you picked your distro?