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Back when Kubuntu Edgy came out, I upgraded Dapper on my notebook—using apt-get, like they recommend—and things went haywire. That is to say, apart from dependency trouble and some minor issues, for some reason, my fan would turn on and off every second or so. Every time the CPU temperature reached 60 °C, it would turn on momentarily, causing the temperature to drop below 60 immediately, which would turn off the fan, only to have it reach 60 again after a short while, at which point the process would repeat itself. I was certain this wasn’t doing my hardware any good, so I didn’t want to mess around looking for a solution, and decided to reinstall Dapper. I’m still not sure how all this was even possible, since I thought these things were controlled by the BIOS or fan controller firmware or whatever, but there you go.
However, even though Dapper is dubbed “Long Time Support”, you end up with ridiculously outdated packages—I like to call that “the Debian way”. Hence, I decided to give it another try today. This time, I downloaded the live CD and booted it, and messed about a little to see what would happen with my fan. Much to my surprise, it was fine, so I proceeded to take the aforementioned upgrade path again, and, even more to my surprise, I’m now on Edgy and I have yet to find something that broke during the upgrade.
Next steps include upgrading KDE and Amarok individually. If anything goes wrong, you’ll be the first to hear.