[KLUG Members] Successful migration from Ubuntu 7.04 to 8.04

[Michael Lueck]

Greetings KLUG'ers-

Today I successfully reloaded my main workstation to Ubuntu 8.04, from 7.04. Some interesting items I encountered:

I learned to purge compiz* packages, and let the former Window Manager take over instead of the "new fangled one" that has some issues.

Then I utilized Envy to install the nVidia binary device drivers for the PNY nVidia board that is in my system. Envy is back in the official 8.04 repository, whereas with 7.04 it was an external download.

8.04 has plugins that work only with Firefox 3.x, thus I just finished up migrating my FF2 profile to FF3. I have learned what files are auto generated, and should be deleted and auto recreated on a 
new FF build. Minor hassle getting updated extensions that are compatible with FF3.

As usual, I utilized UbuntuZilla to install the official builds of both Firefox and Thunderbird directly from Mozilla.

The thing that kept me from migrating sooner was Parallels. These days, Parallels is in the Ubuntu Vendors Repository, but that version has issues. The command to compile certain things in Parallels 
for the exact kernel on the machine has been neutered in that version and does not compile. Currently it is built for the -18 kernel, whereas -19 has been current for more than a month. I finally got 
sick of waiting and downloaded the test build of Parallels for Ubuntu 8.04 directly from Parallels last evening, had success, thus decided for that route today.

I utilized Medibuntu to get various update packages. Also the Vendors Repositry to fetch down other things. Things like Adobe Acrobat, Google Earth, and Skype.

The Ubuntu water is great! :-) Please feel free to contact us either on / off list if we might be of assistance with Ubuntu.

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Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/