State of miKration

Now that I've choosen Kubuntu to be my next life-base, I started to prepare my suse for removal.

Btw, that's even more work than you'd think.

So what does one have to do if he's leaving a 3 years used system? Well, a holy lot of crap,

• like looking for important things such as amarok-db-backups ...
• and you have to note your self-compiled software so that you can build it again on the new system ...
• search for secure (or maybe easy) way to move the stuff from the one to the other system -> google:kamion+kde;google:konserve+kde ...
• sort out the garbage so that you don't loose time when moving the home's 30 gigs + other important stuff's 20 gigs -> google:filelight ...
• prepare the partitions -> google:qtparted ...
• search for a external storage -> froogle:external+hdd+wd ...
• take a backup of /etc && /var && /root && /home to the free storage ...
• shrink your less than 1 month old windows installation so that your new distro will have even more space than the last -> google:remove+partition+qtparted ...
• study nasty things of the new system so that you can avoid them on your new installation -> google:kubuntu+bugs ...
• post about the current state of migration (btw, vienna currently has 250 machines with winux) ...
• try to keep things running while you do all this (probably the hardest part)

The really damn part about moving is that you have 2 not properly working systems:
box:/home/me # firefox
(firefox-bin:9275): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_window_set_back_pixmap(): pixmap must have a colormap
(firefox-bin:9275): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/etc/opt/gnome/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders': No such file or directory
(firefox-bin:9275): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_window_set_back_pixmap(): pixmap must have a colormap
(firefox-bin:9275): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/etc/opt/gnome/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders': No such file or directory
(Gecko:9275): Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically loaded modules
were found. Pango will not work correctly. This probably means
there was an error in the creation of:
'/etc/opt/gnome/pango/pango.modules'
You may be able to recreate this file by running pango-querymodules.
/usr/bin/firefox: line 265: 9275 Segmentation fault $MOZ_PROGRAM $MOZ_LANG
... just when I wanted to blog this :|
btw, seamonkey works :-P

So what else have I done?

• Set-up a draft of the kubuntu system - will be named "morpheus" and be part of the my new "matrix"-domain (which will also include the amaroK-nightly-build-server-for-suse-and-tarball)
• Tested kat on kubuntu (selfbuild) - had problems archiving the stuff
• Wrote a script to get kubuntu use kcontrol instead of systemsettings - link
• Browsed kdenonbeta - awesome stuff there
• Started work with dpkg - looks like debs are easier to build than rpm?!
• Installed KDE 3.5 - first time I saw a lagging KDE.org O.o

hopefully great things will happen in feature although my todo is growing of time wasting but important stuff :|
like promoting #konqueror

so please do me a favor and add #konqueror to your freenode's auto-channel list in konvi and suggest it to others :-D

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