I installed the 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) 64-bit alpha 3 this morning to check out some of the new features. And since I’ve done a few other articles about running Ubuntu in a VM I thought I’d share the experience yet again. If you’re running VMWare Fusion 3.0+ (or the current release of Workstation 7) [...]

A quick reminder for those who don’t know or have forgotten how to upgrade an Ubuntu server: sudo apt-get install update-manager-core sudo do-release-upgrade Follow the instructions, reboot, and you’re done!

I’ve just updated my Ubuntu 9.10 in VMware article with a better process. If you’re looking to install Karmic Koala when it’s released on 10/29 check it out!

Update 2: Preliminary 10.04 instructions are available here. No real obstacles for those running the latest Fusion/Workstation. Update: If you’re using VMware Fusion 3.0 or any VMware Tools version 8.2.3-204229 or better you can follow a drastically simplified process. sudo apt-get install build-essential, choose install VMware Tools from the menu, copy tar to desktop, untar, [...]

Now that Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) is out I decided to upgrade a few of my servers from 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) to the latest release. To upgrade via the command line follow these steps (as root or via sudo): aptitude update aptitude safe-upgrade aptitude install update-manager-core This will get your system upgraded to the latest [...]

Update 10/26/09 Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) is about to be released, so check out the new guide for that version. Update 4/25/09 Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) final was released a few days ago so I grabbed it and rebuilt my VM. I don’t recommend using the “easy install” option at this time, so uncheck that [...]