I flipped open my beloved Lenovo powered laptop, connected the power adaptor cord, pressed the circular on/off button to switch it on and voila - there was the much accustomed, mundane but functional, Ubuntu OS trademark desktop on the screen. Up to this point I will admit that the outcome was pretty predictable.
Then suddenly I noticed an unusual icon in the top right notification bar. The icon was unusual both in terms of its colour and the symbol it portrayed. The icon is very similar to a breakpad alarm light in the dashboard off modern cars. Not being someone who panics easily, I decided to move the mouse cursor to the offending icon and determine what is going on here. Upon placing the cursor on the icon, I expected a hint message to offer some basic information about any alarming condition the Ubuntu may have picked up during the boot up process of the laptop.
To my disappointment, there was no hint message emerging. Naturally. but carefully I then decided to click on the icon and a dialog like object appeared with some lengthy message as depicted below:
Thereafter I clicked on "Show updates" and received another dialog appeared:
Evidently, this dialog has a very limited set of options. It was time to upgrade the current Ubuntu OS version from 15.10 to 16.04 LTS, so I did the honourable and prepared my self for a new OS environment.
Believe it or not, all the aforementioned experience prompted me to create this blog. I thought it was inspiring enough to a point of needing to share the experience with others. I have decided to proceed with the "proposed" upgrade and see how the entire process pans out. I expect another eventful experience during the actual upgrade process and who knows, it may prompt another another blog.
Clicked on "Upgrade" ...
For interests sake, the laptop technical details are as follows:
- CPU: Intel i7.
- RAM: 16GB.
- HD: SSD 320GB.
- OS: Linux Ubuntu 15.10 (prior to upgrade).
