About 2 weweks ago i had a crash on my old machine. The graphics card crashed and I was left with a unusable laptop. Not nice. So I got a new laptop, and moved all stuff over there. I have a system for backup so that the harddrive is backed up every night over rsync to our big backupservers in UK so backup was not a problem.

But when installing on a new system I decided to move up to Kubunto 10.10 from the slightly older 9.10 that I was running now.

I started with installing all and had not any big problem. Actually all worked very nice and all things on the new system (a HP Pavilion dv8) was found. Network, sound, camera, card reader and so on. All worked out of the box. I have not tried the fingerprint reader but that’s about the only thing I haven’t tried.

First of all I did fire up the system, let it boot into windows 7 and made the restore dvd’s. Yes dvd’s. It required 4 dvd’s just to restore a system. Far to much, but now I have them in case I need to.

So I installed Kubuntu 10.10 and wow it was nice. Quick and easy install, just a few questions and on it went with the install.

The only small problem I have had so far is that the Blue-tooth system seems to be, lets say not optimal, so I lost my blue-tooth mouse and is now using a normal USB one. Not a big deal, but a bit annoying. I also have kind of the same problem so I cant pair my phone with my new laptop and send pictures and so on. Well I solve that in due time.

Upgrading applications and settings

One god thing when upgrading a Linux system is that if you know what you are doing there is an easy way of transferring all you settings for applications over. And I mean ALL settings. So for instance, when I moved over firefox, I got my certificates, bookmarks and even history and cashes over.

And one think that my pc friends hates me for – I have run the same installation of EVE since 2007 when i moved over to linux and only upgraded. Most PC users have to reinstall and looses bookmark folders and so on. But with backups and linux you avoid that.

But its not without problems. You have to know where all the configs are, and there are sometimes small changes between versions.

So in the upcoming weeks I will post about the upgrade application by application.

Al of it is based on that I have an full copy of my old home directory in /home/CD/jan_old and my new home dirctory is /home/jan.