Debian upgrade to Jessie

[Techswing33]

Hello,

I've done a fresh Jessie install. That went fine with speech, I've got
a console distro going that now I'd like to add the mate desktop to
and set it up so I can graphically log in. If anyone has this working
I'd appreciate some tips as I've been over the mate wiki which doesn't
seem to be working.

Thanks.
Dave.


On 5/18/15, Tony Baechler <tony at baechler.net> wrote:
> What kernel are you running?  I had no problems upgrading to Jessie on a
> couple of servers here, but unless something changed recently, kernels after
> 2.6.32 don't seem to work with hardware speech.  Of course you aren't using
> a serial synth, so maybe it'll be fine for you.  The upgrade went fairly
> smooth for the most part and I would recommend upgrading.  Be aware that the
> default init is now systemd which has a lot of dependencies, so if you want
> to stay with sysvinit or upstart, keep that in mind.  One server is only
> accessed with ssh, so it has no speech on it at all.  The other is my
> regular desktop machine, but I kept my 2.6.32 kernel due to the lack of
> serial synth support in newer kernels.  I didn't want to upgrade udev, dbus,
> etc, so I kept sysvinit on my desktop, but the remote server got a new
> Jessie install with systemd and it seems fine.  I did upgrade from Wheezy to
> testing, but due to unrelated circumstances, it got a fresh install, however
> that had nothing to do with Jessie or any Debian problems.  Good luck and
> let us know how it goes.
>
> On 5/17/2015 7:26 PM, Tom Fowle wrote:
>> finally realized Debian 8.0 Jessie is released.
>> I see nothing in a quick perusal of the release notes effecting
>> accessibility,
>> or anything else i care about, but-----
>>
>> Using an old 1.3 gig Asus P2b with doubletalk PC internal.
>>
>> Are there any risks in just doing a straight upgrade from currently
>> installed recently updated wheezie using
>> apt-get upgrade
>>
>> Should I worry about backing up much, not really anything critical on
>> the
>> box.
>>
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