5 year old ubuntu system, always dist-upgraded => ok. however some tasks remain
- by knb
I have a PC with a current ubuntu distribution installed. I've upgraded many times since 5.10.
It always went well, however some tools or features were kindof left behind in a unsatisfactory state:
grub to grub2 - is it an really necessary to switch the boot loader some time to grub2. Upgrading this scares me abit.
I still have ext3 devices - is it worth upgrading to ext4? should I wait for btrfs?
hibernation and suspend- it only worked in 5.10, since 6.04 it was messed up. Should I really care? Any chance to repair this myself? Simply by cleanup or hacking config files. It is a desktop PC after all. So energy saving functionality is not really needed.
I am using vmware workstation 6.5 and the latest kernel that supports it is 2.6.32. This is my default kernel now, ignoring 2.6.35. Am I missing anything important in the new kernel now?