Distupgrade from 8.10 (Intrepid) to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)
Yes I did it!
This day I desided to give Ubuntu 9.04 a try, I first had misc feelings about the upgrade because jaunty is still in beta. So first I tried it on my test desktop. The upgrade is relative simple. Fire up a terminal an make sure you have all new packages from intrepid installed then make the dist-upgrade. To accomplish this use the following settings:
# Get root access
sudo bash
# Fetch all new packages for intrepid
aptitude update
# Upgrade all packages for intrepid
aptitude full-upgrade
# Fire up update-manager and start dist-upgrade
update-manager -d
After starting the update manager with "-d" option you should see a field telling you "New distribution release '9.04' is available" click on upgrade and follow the instructions. The upgrade to jaunty took me about one to one and half hours. I've working with it for one day now and hat only one minor issue, my flash player in firefox killed the browser after 10sec. or so... but after reinstalling flashplayer from adobe I had no more issues.
One of the small thinks for gnome uses is the new notification system. Here is the flash movie for it:
A list of new features is available from ubuntu jaunty release site: Jaunty Beta Release side
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