 Zubuntu Meets Jaunty Jackalope, Could the upcoming 9.04 release of Ubuntu make it onto your Zaurus? |
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  Jan 14 2009, 08:55 AM
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For the answer to the question whether or not the upcoming official Ubuntu release (9.04) could make it's way to your Zaurus, click here
 Cheers, cortez |
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Jan 14 2009, 09:54 AM
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Excellent news! Happy to see the .28 kernel. Is ext4 support compiled in? Given the drastic improvements I've seen on my desktop with the new fs, I'd be pleased to see it on the Z as well.
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Jan 14 2009, 11:32 AM
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That's great!
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Jan 14 2009, 02:29 PM
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woo, great news, especially about fennec!
when can I do "apt-get dist-upgrade" then? huh huh, please please??? 
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Jan 14 2009, 03:32 PM
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QUOTE(speculatrix @ Jan 14 2009, 04:29 PM)  woo, great news, especially about fennec! when can I do "apt-get dist-upgrade" then? huh huh, please please??? You should know that fresh installs are the way to go, though you probably could now if you find the repos. 
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Jan 14 2009, 03:36 PM
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Group: Admin Posts: 3,277 Joined: 29-July 04 From: Cambridge, England Member No.: 4,149 |
QUOTE(Capn_Fish @ Jan 14 2009, 11:32 PM) QUOTE(speculatrix @ Jan 14 2009, 04:29 PM) woo, great news, especially about fennec! when can I do "apt-get dist-upgrade" then? huh huh, please please??? You should know that fresh installs are the way to go, though you probably could now if you find the repos. dpkg/apt is largely bullet-proof once set up right as long as the distro is fairly stable and you're not making massive changes to kernel and glib. the only reason for a fresh install would be to get the updated kernel, but now we're all multi-boot that's not needed. the only time it's gone a bit wrong for me was when debian changed from 2.4 to 2.6, a new gcc and glib. but then I did try to take a short-cut and I was a n00b! |
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Jan 14 2009, 07:39 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 2,350 Joined: 30-July 06 Member No.: 10,575 |
QUOTE(speculatrix @ Jan 14 2009, 05:36 PM) QUOTE(Capn_Fish @ Jan 14 2009, 11:32 PM) QUOTE(speculatrix @ Jan 14 2009, 04:29 PM) woo, great news, especially about fennec! when can I do "apt-get dist-upgrade" then? huh huh, please please??? You should know that fresh installs are the way to go, though you probably could now if you find the repos. dpkg/apt is largely bullet-proof once set up right as long as the distro is fairly stable and you're not making massive changes to kernel and glib. the only reason for a fresh install would be to get the updated kernel, but now we're all multi-boot that's not needed. the only time it's gone a bit wrong for me was when debian changed from 2.4 to 2.6, a new gcc and glib. but then I did try to take a short-cut and I was a n00b! I like having a clean system (it's good for freeing up disk space, too). Anyway, we all have backups of our important data and configs, so it should be just as easy, right? To each {his|her} own. |
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Jan 14 2009, 10:24 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 376 Joined: 18-March 04 From: The Netherlands Member No.: 2,380 |
A fresh install is inevitable, since the architecture is changed from arm (used by Mojo) in armel (used by Canonical).
Keep in mind however that this is the "unstable" branch of Ubuntu. It's beta (although a good beta so far!) |
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Jan 15 2009, 03:24 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 51 Joined: 29-October 07 From: barcelona Member No.: 20,873 |
I've tried to upgrade to jaunty from hasty (hardy handheld), managed to change the apt-get architecture by adding APT::Architecture "armel" to /etc/apt/apt.conf
i've found this repo: http://ports.ubuntu.com/dists/jaunty/ binary-armel available but i don't know how to make ubuntu see arm as armel to update the installed packages I'll have to wait for the new rootfs 
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Jan 15 2009, 06:48 AM
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Wow, time to pull the 3100 out of the drawer. Almost sold it more then once, glad I kept procrastinating
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