Ubuntu 10.04 BETA1 (Lucid)

[Basil Chupin]

On 06/04/10 18:35, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> On 04/06/2010 04:09 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
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>> On 06/04/10 17:08, Fred A. Miller wrote:
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>>> On 04/06/2010 02:51 AM, Grizzly wrote:
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>>>> On 05 April 2010 at 21:29, Fred A. Miller
>>>> Enlightened me with this:-Re: Ubuntu 10.04 BETA1 (Lucid)
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>>>>> On 04/05/2010 02:55 PM, Grizzly wrote:
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>>>>>> On 5 Apr 2010 at 23:34, Basil Chupin wrote: Ubuntu 10.04 BETA1 (Lucid) (at
>>>>>> least in part)
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>>>>>>> This is not meant to provoke a desktop or a distro war, so read it in
>>>>>>> this light.
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>>>>>> Can I "upgrade" to 10.4(beta) from 9.10 direct or do I need to start a fresh?
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>>>>> You can upgrade.....I did one 2 days ago
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>>>> I tried last night, expected time to install was 2:49 @ 23:00 it dropped to
>>>> 2:30 by 23:48 (getting mew packages) so I went to bed and left it running :-<
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>>>> This morning @ 07:30 it was up to 3:26 (installing packages) so I gave up
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>>>> should it take that long to upgrade, I havnt got the fastest ADSL line but it
>>>> does run @ 1.4mb
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>>> 'Wouldn't think so. I haven't run Ubuntu for that long, but at no time
>>> have I noted any of the servers being that slow.
>>>
>>> Fred
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>> As far as I am concerned, they *ARE* slow :-( . I get thruout of around
>> 17Kbs/s or less. If I get up to 50+Kbs/s I am laughing.
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> Yes, but you live in the "land down under," so data has to travel a
> great distance. :)
>
> Fred
>    
Sheesh! You know nutin' :-( .

Things flow quicker when they are going *downhill* so I ought to be 
getting the data *MUCH* faster.

BC


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