So, you’ve probably noticed that last week’s post never appeared …
Partially that’s because I lost track of the date, and partially that’s because I was going to do an update from ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 on my secondary server, so I figured I’d review the process.
The idea being that I ran Slackware for like 8 years, and loved it, but quit having time for the hand-compiling management that I wanted with that system. But there wasn’t (AFAICR) any good base system version upgrading. There might have been, but by the time the first update would have gone, i had so many customized compiles that it would have caused more problems than help. And my system was more up to date with latest versions, because I didn’t have to go through package testing.
Then I went to gentoo, to keep that compiled “for your use”, and it was good, except some of the things I wanted to do I had to customize too much for, and so I couldn’t do upgrades again.
So now I’m moving to ubuntu. Most of the things I’ve looked for i can find prebuilt packages for; and the VM management seems a little cleaner than the last try through gentoo, in that I don’t need to install X-Windows on my server to install the VM servers; it’s partially because ubuntu has good docs on Xen and KVM; I think gentoo had these options too now, but not positive.
Except 10.04 is still only in RC, not yet released. I’m figuring on sometime this week, maybe, but figured I’d post since I was already a full week off.
I’ll probably write up that post when it happens and queue it up. Trying to get some of these queued up, but I never get a chance to take all the screenshots I want for a few of them 