I just opened up Gparted on my Laptop here running Ubuntu 10.04. It appears there are 3 partitions listed. /sda1 ext4 /sda2 extended /sda5 linux-swap I know this is a basic question but how can I see which partition my /home and /usr/local etc directories are filed under? I noticed in my case that my /usr/local/etc directory is basically empty but not the /usr directory. Thank You. > Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:45:56 -0600 > From: tclug at freakzilla.com > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Will Firefox 20.0 become obselete for basic use? > > Just want to point out that you CAN skip versions with Ubuntu. Probably > not unlimited version skips, but I just went from 12.04 to 13.10 on a > couple of machines in one go. > > Now if you're going to do a reinstall, well, this is why we keep /home and > /usr/local etc on separate partitions (: You can reinstall the OS and keep > all your data and configuration. > > On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, Mike Miller wrote: > > > On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, paul g wrote: > >> > >>> For a basic home/office computer user running an older FireFox version say > >>> '20.0' under Ubuntu 10.04 etc '2.6.-- kernel' will new web pages and > >>> webpage design soon require the need for a later version of FireFox or > >>> Opera to 'surf' the web? Just a curious question I am a noob. > >> > >> Might be some small things that won't work, but in general you should be > >> fine. > >> > >> Of course, as time goes on, those small things will get bigger and bigger. > >> Still, basic HTML with basic javascript should be fine for a long time. It > >> all depends on what kind of content you want. > >> > >> May I ask why you're running such an old version of Ubuntu? > > > > > > I wasn't the OP (that was paul g), but I'm using 10.10 on my home Linux box. > > One reason for that is I tried to upgrade and it did not work. I think > > sometime in the next few months I'll get around to just redoing everything to > > and installing fresh. Apparently, if you don't upgrade soon enough, you > > can't upgrade at all. I'm not sure why. Another Ubuntu thing is that you > > can only upgrade to the next version -- you can't skip ahead. I don't know > > why that is, but it's annoying. So now I'm trying to keep up-to-date on the > > machines that are current enough to allow upgrades. I don't like to upgrade > > immediately when a new version comes out, but maybe a month later, in case > > they had some bugs to work out. > > > > I'm using Firefox 11.0 on that Ubuntu 10.10 box and it seems to be working > > fine. I don't know what I'll be getting for upgrading Firefox -- that will > > be interesting to see. > > > > I have an even older box that I use more -- it's running Ubuntu 9.10. I > > would love to get that upgraded, too. The main problem there is that I'm > > constantly using it. I bought another machine to replace it, but I couldn't > > get everything to work on that new machine. I should try again. We have to > > admit that there are all kinds of hassles with making these machines do what > > we want. I'm getting a lot out of it, though. A lot. There is nothing in > > the conventional Mac/Windows world to compare. > > > > On that 9.10 machine I'm mostly using Chromium-Browser. It gives me this > > version information: > > > > 13.0.768.0 (Developer Build 85577 Linux) Ubuntu 9.10 > > > > I'm sure that's a few years out of date. It definitely is starting to cause > > some problems. The biggest problem is that I can't seem to upgrade the flash > > and some web sites won't work because of that. Some sites will complain > > about my old browser and tell me to upgrade (which I cannot do, it seems), > > but those sites still work OK, as far as I can tell. > > > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140223/69e81d1d/attachment.html>