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My Desktop OS: An upgrade from Edubuntu Breezy to Dapper
By Vincent Angus Williams - scribe63

To exploit one of the tenets of FOSS, a users freedom of choice, i exercise this right by using several Desktop Environments and Window Managers with the same or different Distros, for what they have to offer and or do best within a given criteria.

About Edubuntu
This article is based on my Edubuntu Workstation.
This was initially Edubuntu based on Ubuntu Breezy with added DEs and WMs Kubuntu, Fluxbox, Xfce, and E17.

Name	Type	Platform	Processor	Description
THT	Workstation	Desktop	PIV 3.06Hz	Home office workstation.

Introduction: Go	Desktop Environments Window Managers: Go	Themes File Managers Text Editors: Go	Multimedia Internet: Go	Package Management: Go
Office Graphics: Go	Edutainment Development: Go	Hardware: Go	Summary: Go	Screenshots: VIEW

Package Management: Since my desktop/server workstation is a Xbrid, there are certain issues to deal with. If i log into Edubuntu/Gnome 'update-manager' notifies automatically of updates. When i logged into Edubuntu/Kubuntu-desktop, there was usually no auto notification, so i added panel buttons for 'update-manager' and 'synaptic' and loaded them to checked for updates. I'm sure there's some way to make 'update-manager' auto load in kubuntu, just didn't seek it out. My Kubuntu-desktop was upgraded from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3 during the 'dist-upgrade'. process of Edubuntu. After the updates, when i logged into Kubuntu noticed that 'adept' started up automatically and displayed that updated packages were available.
I clicked on the 'adept' panel button and a password dialog popped with command 'kdesu adept_updater', 'adept' showed itself after a while and i clicked on the 'Fetch List of Updates' it fetched the 4 updates then i clicked 'Apply Updates'. Adept did its thing and i was presented with update complete and clicked the quit button.
But when i moused over on it again, it was still saying 4 updated packages available and when i ran it displayed the same 4 packages. Prior to this i did run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to update those same files. When i open synaptic and do 'Mark All Upgrades' nothing shows up, i'm not sure what this issue is at all. The 4 packages are gnome-cups-manager, linux-doc, python-netcdf, and rapidsvn. To rectify this situation, i opened synaptic - marked each for upgrade - and upgraded them individually.

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