Thanks a lot for the confirmation Andy ! I'm not going to touch this one, not with a long pole, and wait for the next LTS after that (at least!). BTW, I was also at the beach... just earlier :-) PS: anyone know where those lines in motd come from, and how I can avoid them ?... PPS: scratch that, fou...

'scuse me if I bump this one... did I ask while everyone was at the beach, or is the answer maybe already here somewhere ?
(in which case, yell at me :-)

Has anyone upgraded from 10.04LTS to 12.04LTS in this way and survived ? :-)
TIA,
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Hi folks, For the last couple of days, as I log in through ssh/xterm, after the usual welcome and before the prompt, I get a new message : New release 'precise' available. Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it I'm wary of following that advice, as I believe this "new release" is 12.04L...

Thanks much, standing by, no problem :-)

Thanks in advance Andy !

It seems a couple of guys have succeeded by tweaking ALSA, but it's not clear what distro they were using.

Then there would be the issues of a display of sorts, and a handful of buttons... early days, still :-)

Any of you guys blessed with Pi's have an USB device that plays sound, like external speakers or sound "cards" or DACs, by any chance ?

I'd really like to know if one of the distros can drive them out of the box...

(and no, haven't found the answer at rasperrypi.org :-)

Glad to be of help... Now that my Ubuntu/SnapRaid server seems to be stabilized (crossed fingers :-), I may try my hand at one myself. I'm still using a good old WRT54 running Tomato, which is a lot better than Netgear firmware, and less hassle than WRT, but still not as transparent as I'd like it t...

Never heard of a homebrew router before. They've been around for a long time, both in software and hardware form. Just about any board with low power consumption and two Ethernet ports, running Linux, is a router. Dedicated distros add easy of use and/or advanced functionality. I'm intrigued, apart...

Im even surprise that untwisted cat5 even gave you 100Mbps, Its rated at 10Mbps O.o I would seriously consider upgrading your cabling infrastructure to cat6 if you have a Gigabit switch as you wont be getting the maximum potential out of your download speed. Your speed within you LAN will also be a...

If you are talking about running Cat 6 cable I highly recommend it as normal cat5e can only support a download speed of around 12.5MBps while cat6e will get you around 125MB It certainly makes sense to "do things right" in a new house, especially a large one (with basement, upper floors e...