Hot Upgrade to Hardy Heron

Monday, April 28. 2008

During the Groovy Workshop of the JAX 2008 I did an upgrade of my Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10) system to the latest Hardy Heron (8.04). SuSE users, did you notice the first word 'During'?

Call me crazy to try a hot update while I really required to work on my system. Would you dare to do this with SuSE Linux? Or with any Microsoft Windows version? Or with Mac OS? Well, even if you would dare, these operating systems do not allow you to do that.

As already mentioned in my first impressions about Kubuntu, I expected Kubuntu as a Debian based distribution to provide a smooth upgrade. I was so sure that this can be done that I even tried it, while having a workshop that required my laptop. I wasn't dissapointed. Even more... I was astonished how smooth the upgrade was performed actually. This is something most operating system users just can dream of: Doing an online upgrade in the background, while working on the machines in less than 2 hours just one day after the official release of the distribution.


Where SuSE simply creates backup of changed configuration files, Kubuntu opens a diff and lets you decide which version to maintain. The result: After the upgrade my system just continued to run. At the beginning I was even worried that the upgrade failed. The only thing I noticed was that the title bar configuration of the Cyrstal windows decoration has been changed. Maybe a different boot splash would have been nice to have at least some noticable difference when booting.

But the best thing: Suspend to disk is finally working. Oh yeah! Suspend to disk in combination with fglrx 3D support on my HP Compaq nw8240 notebook.


Posted by Carsten Schlipf Filed under Linux.
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    #1 Andrew on 05/02/08 at 09:27 AM [Reply]
    *Hm. A couple questions:

    Did you use the command-line apt-get (or aptitude), or the GUI package manager?
    Also, is this Kubuntu with KDE3.5 or KDE4?

    I'm currently running Kubuntu Gutsy KDE4, and I don't dare update through aptitude (my preferred method) and open/close windows at the same time. For some reason, doing so causes X to spontaneously restart.
    #1.1 Carsten Schlipf on 05/02/08 at 09:37 AM [Reply]
    *Hi Andrew, I did it using the UI by calling "adept_manager --dist-upgrade". I am still using KDE 3.5. Since the KDE 4 packages are from official Kubuntu repositories and since KDE 4 is explicitly supported by Hardy Heron I can't image a reason, why it should not work in your case.

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