Well, it’s time to update the Linux. The latest update is Hardy Heron. Computer people like cute names, and each Linux/ubuntu update has an animal name to identify it. Hardy Heron, gutsy Gibbon, etc.

Before you reload an operating system, you back up everything just in case it gets eaten/destroyed.

So when I installed Gutsy Gibbon, I backed up my computer, place in the disc, and voila, it partitioned and reinstalled the entire operating system for me.

This has some advantages: by doing that, a lot of unneeded files were erased, and the installation even let me keep my older downloads on a separate part of the disc, and it did the partitioning for me during the installation.

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