[sclug] Upgrading to Ubuntu Gutsy (v7.10)

[Luke]

Dam I am tempted to get going now...must wait....manager will go nuts if 
I come in late and bleary eyed after staying up all night.

Can you both let us know how things are post upgrade?

P.s Is there a no top post etiquette rule on this list?

Phillip Chandler wrote:
> My upgrade this afternoon was less that 750 megs. And total time
> (download + Upgrade) was less than 2.5 hrs. But Im expecting some final
> updates / upgrades on the 18th, when the final comes out.
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> On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 20:10 +0100, ed wrote:
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>> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:56:16 +0100
>> "Mayuresh Kadu" <mskadu at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Seems the rush has started:
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>>> http://www.thelinuxstore.ca/static/ubuntu_7_10_upgrade.html
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>>> I am going for it tonight.
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>> Despite the rush, it seems to be flowing at a steady 2mibps, but a word
>> of warning here:
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>>   http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s102/edb3ta/ubuntu-upgrade-gutsy.png
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>> It might not be a quick upgrade... I don't think this estimation
>> includes the package configuration time, upgrading things like
>> postgres/mysql databases can take a while, installing new kernels will
>> also take a while... most of these things bottleneck at the HDD, dpkg
>> doesn't thread that I'm aware of... That's probably a good thing...
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