On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 03:38:43PM +0000, Richard Forth wrote: > Yes�I did revert back but its quite trivial to re-install 9.10 again as�I > have pretty much everything standard and my /home is in a separate partion > anyway (only really use the laptop for facebook and gmail - as I call it > "telly surfing" - surfing while the adverts are on).
I do that too. I even sometimes blog/tweet/dent from the sofa. On one recent occasion I posted this:- http://twitter.com/popey/status/5458341937 The owner of the helicopter in question contacted me and offered me a flight in it. So I fully approve of telly surfing. > I havent implemented encryption yet on it but you made some good points > about security that I hadnt considered.. Something else worth looking at is "prey" which you can use to track your laptop if it's ever stolen. http://preyproject.com/ > Despite that�I still think the login screen from 9.04 is way cooler. But > then�to be fair I havent really given 9.10 the full test drive as its an > old laptop so it might be a graphics rendering issue. I quite like the 9.10 logon screen, it's a shame the config tools weren't ready before release. I suspect it'll all be sorted for 10.04 though. > My desktop is still on 9.04 also but thats a bit trickier to upgrade > because its customised just right, and my home is not on a separate > partition. So before I upgrade I need to sort out a few things first and > create a system image using partimage (I have a special live disc called > SystemRescueCD which is really cool ([1]www.sysresccd.org). Backing up before upgrades is wise :) Here's a tip for you though. Even if you don't have /home on a separate partition, you can still reinstall (upgrade) and not lose any data from /home. If you reinstall over the top of an existing install, and during the partitioning step of the live cd installer choose _manual_ partitioning _and_ _unselect_ the 'format' tickbox, magic happens. The installer will recursively delete all of the folders in / except /home. So that's /bin /usr /var /etc and so on. That all gets deleted and the new system gets installed, leaving /home alone. Magic. Cheers, Al.
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