cloudplasma

this isn’t a review but thought i’d write about the fact that i just upgraded to ubuntu 10.04 alpha 2 from ubuntu 9.04 on my main laptop (a dell inspiron 1545) and everything is func­tion­ing very nicely.

grab the iso here. i stuck it onto a usb key using unet­bootin and was ready to go (obvi­ously back­ing up all import­ant data before proceeding!).

i keep my home dir­ect­or­ies on a sep­ar­ate (encryp­ted) par­ti­tion so format­ted / and /boot but left the rest alone.

the install really is beau­ti­fully simple…it’s been well stream­lined over the years (a far cry from when i star­ted using ubuntu back with dapper) and was com­plete in 10 minutes or so. all hard­ware was detec­ted out of the box…the cor­rect res­ol­u­tion set for the panel, net­work con­nec­tions work­ing (wired and wire­less), sound play­back and func­tion keys all ok too. after run­ning apt-get update quite a lot of updates are installed even though this is a recent release…after this is com­plete we end up with the 2.6.32–11-generic #15-ubuntu smp kernel.

hap­pily using this as my main system…encountered very few bugs so far (and they were trivial).