Finally, after 4 days of hard work, I managed to get Ubuntu 8.04: Hardy Heron running on my laptop. I’m very happy with that even though I had to spent a lot of time on fixing the problems. Now, everything is working perfectly in my Ubuntu system except Hardware Information. The Hardware Information keep crashing when I try to open it. In this post, I want to share my experience upgrading to Hardy Heron.
Upgrading Ubuntu 7.10 to Ubuntu 8.04
On Saturday, I upgraded my Ubuntu 7.10 to Ubuntu 8.04 using the update manager. I clicked on upgrade and followed the instruction. A dialog box pop-up showing the upgrading process. After a while, the process stop and I got a dialog box saying that there was a problem with internet connection. It might be caused by too much load put on the server. For those with slow internet connection, I recommend you to download a live Cd.
Because of that problem, I decided to download a live CD. I torrent a Dvd image of 3.7 GB in just 2 hours. It was super amazing fast; the download speed went up to 600 KB/s. I burned the iso file and loaded it up. I wait for about an hour and the upgrading process finish. The process was really smooth, no problem occurred during the installation process.
The waiting is finally over, the Canonical has released the second LTS, long term support of Ubuntu 8.04 codename Hardy Heron to the public today. Ubuntu 8.04 will be officially supported and maintained by Ubuntu team for three years on desktop and five years on server.
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) on desktop and server, continuing Ubuntu’s tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.
For Ubuntu 7.10 user, you can upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 via update manager and for others, you can download Ubuntu 8.04 from the Ubuntu official website and other mirrors. You also canrequest free CDs of Ubuntu 8.04. You don’t have to worry about the shipping cost, it will be shipped by Canonical free of charge. You just need to fill up a form.
It’s 4 more days to go until the final version of Ubuntu 8.04, Hardy Heron hit the street. The CEO of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth guarantees that this version will make it on time. So, for all Ubuntu fans out there (including me), you don’t have to worry. You will get it for sure.
If you go to Ubuntu official website, you will see a link to download a release candidate of Hardy Heron. If you don’t want to wait until the final version come out, you can try this release candidate version and upgrade to stable version later. The release candidate version is considered complete and stable for testing by the Ubuntu development team.
Some updates include in this version are:
The latest Gnome 2.22.1 with new version of Nautilus file manager
The 2.6.24-16.30 kernel which is base on 2.6.24.3
Firefox 3 beta 5 as the default browser
The PulseAudio sound server is integrated in the Gnome Desktop
New screen resolution utility
Wubi installer for easier installation for new user
To get a full list of new features since Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon you can check this page
One linux user had posted a video on YouTube where he run 165+ applications simultaneously without having any performance problem. In the video, he wrote that he run 180 applications.
On April 10, Mandriva has released it’s popular Mandriva Linux distribution to the public. You can read my previous post to know about some improvements and new features added to this distribution.
Jochem wrote a review in his blog about this new released.
A while ago I took a look at Mandriva 2008 Spring RC1 inside VirtualBox. Today, the 2008 Spring final release was announced. I decided to install it on my main laptop (Acer 5920). Here’s a few quick notes. Perhaps a full review will follow later. This time I downloaded the One GNOME i586 version.
The announcement seems to have been made a bit too soon unfortunately. Not all mirrors listed by Mandriva had the all iso’s up already. I needed to use BitTorrent to download the GNOME One version of the ISO. I was unable to find an x86_64 version. Pretty strange. 64 Bit hardware has been in common use for about three years now here, but software support still seems abysmal
About the install: After starting the Live Install, it complained about not being able to mount an USB stick. I clicked the notice away, an install continued without problems. I noticed the Netherlands is now listed in the “Other countries” list. Thanks Adam and Mandriva team! (see comments on previous review).
Yesterday, Mandriva has released its latest distribution, Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring.
Mandriva, the leading European Linux distributor, today announces the launch of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring, the major new release of Mandriva Linux, featuring hundreds of improvements which make for a quicker and more powerful distribution that is easier to use than ever.
Here a list of improvements made:
A new parental control utility
The Elisa multimedia center,manage your photos, music and videos
Easy synchronization with mobile devices
Software updates include KDE 3.5.9, GNOME 2.22, OpenOffice.org 2.4, Linux kernel 2.6.24.4, X.org 7.3, Compiz 0.7
Finally, after 4 days of hard work, I managed to get Ubuntu 8.04: Hardy Heron running on my laptop. I’m very happy with that even though I had to spent a lot of time on fixing the problems. Now, everything is working perfectly in my Ubuntu system except Hardware Information. The Hardware Information keep crashing when I try to open it. In this post, I want to share my experience upgrading to Hardy Heron.
