Things in life that I love:
Xiomara
Free Beer
Free Speech
Free Operating systems (and along those lines…)
The new Ubuntu ad campaign. It looks so…. professional. Almost in a bad way that I had a knee jerk reaction to close the window because there is no way that an open source project is going to “dazzle” their fans. Yeah right. “All operating systems include stuff you’ll never use. For example Ubuntu 8.04 LTS includes a simple uninstall feature. We know- completely redundant.” This comes across the screen in a flash animation (unexpected as I was on the site yesterday) finishing the presentation with a nice button to Download the OS ISO. I’m lolzing around giddy as a school girl. My little operating system that could is growing up and becoming a blossoming flower.
Okay, so it’s been grown up for a while and like the system administrators of the world (Windows, Mac, and Linux alike) it’s probably a bit more irreverent than some people are willing to accept with the office door open and people standing around outside. You’ve got to hand it to the Ubuntu community: the last few releases have progressed far beyond most expectations. Luckily for me on this bandwidth impaired day while people everywhere are downloading this new OS, I only have to upgrade.
Yes, I’m already using Ubuntu 7.10 with a couple of components which are probably in the new release, so this will save me from having to wait for the download of the whole ISO file just right now and just install what I need instead. I’m doing this now. There is this nice little applet which is performing my upgrade for me. 
This is also unexpected. I was waiting for everything to be handled through the package manager (as it has in my past experiences). It’s just disabled my third party repos and is setting up new software channels. I’m writing this on the same computer as I’m upgrading. I’m anxious to see a couple of things: 1. if the Network Manager has been re-vamped. Since the last couple of updates, it’s been working at a bit longer wireless ranges and has not been asking me two and three times for the WPA keys (which are supposed to be stored in the keyring anyway so I’m not supposed to be re-typing them at all). 2. if any of my webcams will work. I haven’t gotten my inexpensive hardware to operate as of yet. …and 3. I want to see if this is going to properly upgrade my kernel. I am actually using Ubuntu Studio with the modded real time kernel, but this upgrade is still telling me it’s available.
Well, I’ve hit a bit of a snag… the upgrade needs 2GB free on the / partition and, well… I don’t have it. I emptied the trash and ran sudo apt-get clean as suggested, but the short truth is this: I don’t partition my / that big to begin with. I think they left out those of us who’ve been using Unix for a while and like to tune up our drives with separate partitions for different mount points. Oh well. I was preparing for that JIC and I’ve already started downloading the ISO DVD for Ubuntu Studio using jigdo. I think I’m going to bed now and let that finish up. I’ll post here how the whole process went. Hopefully on a spank-me new Ubu system.
Peas.
Pseudo related sidenote: to mount an iso image directly in linux:
make a directory like:
mkdir /media/iso
…then mount that bastard with an “O” face (and switch):
sudo mount -o loop /blah/blah/blah/cdOrDvdImage.iso /media/iso
et voila! Smokin!
