:Pulling the trigger on Ubuntu 9.10 upgrade, Part 1: Eyes wide open/shut
Pulling the trigger on Ubuntu 9.10 upgrade, Part 1: Eyes wide open/shut Nov 3, 2009, 21 :02 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (2622 reads) (Other stories by Steven Rosenberg)
"This is an upgrade, not a clean install, so I won't be getting (and don't really want) the new GRUB 2 bootloader. I won't get the ext4 filesystem, either (although I would like to try it, I'm not sufficiently motivated at present to do a full reinstall).
"I'm fairly confident that all of my hardware — a 2002-era Toshiba Satellite 1100-S101 and any one of three WiFi adapters — will work.
"I'm less confident about the laptop's Intel video. Intel video hasn't just been problematic in Linux for the past couple of years. It's been a problem in the BSDs, too.
It all comes down to Xorg. Or Intel. Depends on who you ask. Or whom you ask."
