Ubuntu Upgrade
So I took the plunge and did a clean install of ubuntu 9.10. I had been running ubuntu 8.04 for a very long time now and I was getting tired of running into things that I couldn't install because of out of date libraries and such. One of those is calibre the open source ebook management tool. I managed to install it on 8.04 so that I could use the command line conversion tools but wasn't able to use the gui. That was just one of the things that I was wanting to use and couldn't. I'll get to the others later on.
I've found that as I've gotten older I really don't enjoy tinkering with the computer as much as I used to. Now days I really just want most everything to work with a minimum of fuss. So far this is proving to be just that easy. Nothing that I've tried has really caused any problems. Admittedly I haven't really been doing much that could be considered ground shaking with this release but all of the basics seem to work well. I can browse whatever internet sites I want and everything seems to work flash etc, and I haven't run into any applications that I need that haven't been available through the repositories.
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