OneAndOneIs2

I've been using Ubuntu 6.06 - the "Dapper" release - on my desktop because I couldn't face the upgrade process.

Today, I bit the bullet and got on with it.

Burned a 7.04 "Feisty" CD, booted it, and installed the new version on the partition previously inhabited by Slackware - maybe I'll have another go with Slack later, I don't know.

Rebooted, installed the 119 updates (180MB later...) and also enabled "Desktop effects" - not because I really need wobbly windows, but because my screen has an oddball resolution (1400x1050) that can only work with the proprietary NVIDIA drivers. Impressively, it auto-selected this res. after the driver was installed, no effort on my part.

Then did a "cp -Rav * /home/dominic" to copy all my old files to the new system. Do not do this yourself unless you REALLY know what you're doing, it can bugger your system up like you wouldn't believe...

For some reason, Firefox and Thunderbird's configs didn't update even with this, so I copied them across manually. And that's that, all done. A few little tweaks to get the last bits set the way I want, and I'll be done.

Not the most painful installation process ever (That would be Linux From Scratch) and not the quickest ever - it took over two hours to get what I would consider a usable system.

But no problems whatsoever, and that's what counts.

(Even got my webcams working - the 'normal' one AND the one I hacked to be infra-red...)