For all who read my last blog entry from yesterday before my web server went offline—and then back—let me just mention up front that the upgrade went as flawlessly as it can be. So, go ahead and click the upgrade button and watch your Ubuntu 9.04 system morph into a Ubuntu 9.10 system. (After backing up your vital data of course.)
For those who want to learn how my upgrade fared, read on.
Thu 29 Oct 2009 11:59:05 PM CDT
After retrieving some meta-information, the Ubuntu distribution upgrade utility—karmic—informed me that some applications are obsoleted...
At this time, I was thinking of clicking the download button and go to sleep. However, after the download started, it tells its going to take 17 hours.
Fri 30 Oct 2009 07:32:52 AM CDT
By Friday morning, all downloads were done, and the installation process had been started for a while. However, it was waiting for my approval of going forward with stopping some processes. I clicked the "Forward" button and got the following screen. By this time my website was down. But I had to go to work.
My blog came back up shortly after I arrived at work.
Fri 30 Oct 2009 05:43:04 PM CDT
When I got home in the afternoon, another user interaction dialog was waiting for me. After that it was time for removing obsolete packages:
That quickly lead to the "Restart the system to complete the upgrade" dialog.
The New System
The first thing I noticed is the new theme. Title bars of windows are darker now. Firefox 3.5 is the default browser. It feels a lot faster than Firefox 3.0, which was the default for 9.04.
And obviously, this blog is running just fine after the upgrade, with Tomcat 6.0.20 and Sun Java 1.6.0_16.
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