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Comment on Upgrade Ubuntu fail (again) by Litrik De Roy

Litrik De Roy — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:23:40 +0000

I upgraded 3 laptops and a server to Lucid without any problem. I also installed Lucid on a new laptop (with an SSD) and it is really fast (boot, shutdown and overall).

I did stick with “do-release-upgrade”…

Comment on Upgrade Ubuntu fail (again) by Paul Cobbaut

Paul Cobbaut — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:17:51 +0000

Upgrading broke my wireless. Network Manager was disconnecting every 10 minutes. Replacing it with wicd solved the problem.

paul

Comment on Upgrade Ubuntu fail (again) by Serge van Ginderachter

Serge van Ginderachter — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:13:53 +0000

Come on, you say it yourself, install which ever distro, if you customise stuff to the point where you install important packages through other repositories, you risk it to break stuff. Especially if those extra packages are intrusive (upgrading important libs etc). Even Debian will chuckle in those situations.

Which upgrade procedure did you use? Don’t upgrade Ubuntu like you would do that on Debian, by just replacing the distro version codename in your sources. The regular Ubuntu procedure (do-release-upgrade) will first disable all third party repo’s before doing the upgrade.

I did upgrades both on Debian and Ubuntu several times through last years. Whilst I occasionally had to fix things (often due to me customizing stuff, or traditionally having to fix X) I cannot recall things were that broken I had to reinstall.

Yes, overall, Ubuntu might tend to feel a bit more unstable, but IMHO you should compare normal Ubuntu releases to Debian testing, whilst sticking to Ubuntu LTS releases for stability and compare that to Debian stable.

Or will you tell me that Debian testing is *allways* stable?

Comment on Video editing in Linux by Wouter Verhelst

Wouter Verhelst — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:27:41 +0000

You should try Cinelerra and/or Kdenlive. They’re both excellent non-linear video editors, good for the somewhat more advanced stuff, though perhaps a bit complex if you’re not used to that kind of work.

Comment on Printing in Gnome by fix

fix — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:25:06 +0000

And what if I wanted to do it from gnome without dropping to the command line?

Comment on Printing in Gnome by Philip Paeps

Philip Paeps — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:04:08 +0000

I use a Makefile for my invoices. It basically drives LaTeX and mainly exists to keep track of the numbering, but I also have a “make print” target that spews PostScript to the printer.

Comment on Printing in Gnome by Paul Cobbaut

Paul Cobbaut — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:00:04 +0000

lp *.pdf

Comment on Printing in Gnome by Serge van Ginderachter

Serge van Ginderachter — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:08:30 +0000

for f in *.pdf *.PDF; do lpr $f; done

Comment on Printing in Gnome by wannes

wannes — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:58:48 +0000

This is what I do:
pdftk *pdf cat output Q1.pdf
And then print.

Comment on Installing 2 tomcat servers as service on windows by Jaimini Ram

Jaimini Ram — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:36:14 +0000

Expanding on the author’s “insert all the settings from your firstly installed tomcat” statement:

What this means is that you have to open the original tomcat5w.exe from the 1st installation and open ApacheTomcat2w.exe from the 2nd one.

Copy the settings, but make sure all path related info with respect to the 2nd installation.
Eg. the path for logging in the 1st one may be c:/1stinstallpath/tomcat5/logs, but change the 2nd one to c:/2ndinstallpath/etc/etc/logs.