I'm going to try my luck at pulling a 'hot' system upgrade to a totally different system. Basically, I point my upgrade sources to a totally different version of my OS. Then I sit back and watch as every package on my box is systematically upgraded and hope it doesn't break anything ...while it's still running. If you don't hear from me for a while, you can probably guess why... Wish me luck, -AT
Code: su - root urpmi.removemedia -a urpmi.addmedia plf-free [url]ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/plf/mandrake/free/10.2[/url] with hdlist.cz && urpmi.addmedia plf-nonfree [url]ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/plf/mandrake/non-free/10.2[/url] with hdlist.cz && urpmi.addmedia --update updates [url]ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/LE2005/main_updates/[/url] with media_info/hdlist.cz && urpmi.addmedia main [url]ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrakelinux/official/2005/i586/media/main[/url] with media_info/hdlist.cz && urpmi.addmedia contrib [url]ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrakelinux/official/2005/i586/media/contrib[/url] with media_info/hdlist.cz && urpmi.addmedia jpackage [url]ftp://ftp.uio.no/linux/Mandrakelinux/official/2005/i586/media/jpackage[/url] with media_info/hdlist.cz urpmi --auto --auto-select Upgrading right now. This is a *very* unofficial way of upgrading your system. Fingers crossed... hah: -AT
Well, I'm still running, and still haven't rebooted. Over 900 packages were upgraded, including KDE, GCC, libfreetype, and my kernel sources. It was weird watching it stop and restart critical system processes on the fly, as if it was no big deal. Man, this new version if libfreetype renders fonts beautifully! It's gonna take some getting used to though. If anybody is having a hard time relating to what I'm talking about, imagine upgrading Windows 2000 to Windows XP while still using the system normally and without rebooting during or after the process. Then you'll have an idea of why I even bothered to post this nonsense. -AT
Good luck. Its cool that Linux only needs to reboot when updating the kernel. Not like windows when you apply an update to IE you have to do a whole reboot.
I can't hardly believe it myself, but the whole process seems to have worked without a hitch! All I have to do is recompile the newer kernel source (at my option). I'm up & going with Mandriva 2005. :good: -AT
Hmm, I don't know exactly, but pretty massive I'm sure. It upgraded a little over 900 packages -- in other words just about every package on the system. My guess would be a couple of gigs, since I have a lot of optional software installed. For some reason, I'm getting better 3D performance than I did before. Definately an unexpected side effect, since I still haven't gotten around to recompiling either my kernel or my video drivers yet! -AT
I'm attributing it to updated versions of every major system library. Seems like the GNU boys have been hard at work. Well done, gentlemen!
OK, you asked for 'em and you got 'em. Problem is, Linux is hard to screenshot, since it's so extremely versatile. As a result, I shot ten pictures for you, played around with multiple themes (even made it look like MacOS-X), and tinkered with some multimedia stuff. Even so, this isn't even close to what you can do in KDE alone -- and it's only one of many possible window managers in Linux. -AT
It is pretty, at least as pretty as you want it to be. But the default look hasn't really changed too drastically since KDE 3.2, to be honest. I am really impressed with the default font rendering that ships with Mandriva 2005 though. The rendering in MDK 10.x was excellent, and this is even better.
It seems there is one minor caveat: none of my custom file associations from KDE3.2 were preserved. Not a big deal at all, but now I can't say it was a 100% seamless upgrade. Still seems like 99% at this point though. Now to go compile the new 2.6.11 kernel and give it a whirl... -AT
