Last week, Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” was released. Being a fearless cutting-edge Kubuntu kind of guy, I opted for an upgrade at the earliest possible. So later that Thursday night I set the distribution upgrade going in my rock-stable Kubuntu 10.10 “Maverick Viñales^WMeerkat” AMD64 install’s package manager and went to bed. The servers were clearly [...]
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There was some recent discussion on this site about Linux and whether it was a consumer-ready operating system or not, and having installed Kubuntu on my PC alongside Windows7 recently I now feel much better qualified to comment.
This week, Apple had one of their famous announcements. As usual it was on at an unfriendly time of day for me, since I live in the UTC+0700 timezone (meaning it started at midnight on the Thursday/Friday) – but I still stayed awake to watch it. I am a registered iPhone developer and I myself [...]
Linux has been with us in one form or another for a very long time now. The first ‘real’ distribution of Linux was released over 16 years ago – in dog years that’s 112, and in computer years that’s like … forever. The first version of Linux that I remember was Yggdrasil, which was released [...]
And this is where the path gets a little twisty. You cannot upgrade RC1 into a release Windows 7. You cannot upgrade an Ultimate install into anything other than an Ultimate. 32Bit only goes to 32bit. Antitrust N releases can only upgrade other antitrust N releases. So basically you can only use the upgrade install function if you are upgrading what you have to the exact same thing. I understand it deigns to allow you to upgrade VISTA to W7, so long as all the above criteria is met; ie 32bit to 32bit, ultimate to ultimate, etc.
