Posted by: jonreagan | April 25, 2008

Well… Hardy Didn’t Exactly Work

iTWire has an article about how there are quite a few signifigant bugs in the new release of Ubuntu, 8.04. Unfortunately, I cannot say that things have moved so smoothly with my installation either. The problem lies in the fact that I can’t even get the installation CD to run.

I have tried the Ubuntu 8.04 LiveCD, Alternate (text mode) installation CD, and I know the Kubuntu CDs don’t work. That’s three confirmed down that do not work on my laptop. My laptop is about 2 years old now, so it’s not an old laptop, and every Ubuntu release, CD and all, worked up until this point. Now, things just refuse to run. I tried the LiveCD on a family computer, and it worked just fine, so at least I know I burned the CD correctly. I could install Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon and upgrade, and hope things work. If things did not work, do I want to be stuck with a monkey for the next 2 years, until it’s time to replace my laptop? I could, but new features draw me in. I enjoy new features and seeing what they can do.

In my opinion, like the first LTS release, Dapper Drake back in June 2006, it would have been beneficial to hold off the new release for two months to fix bugs. After all, it’s and Long Term Support release, and is supposed to be stable. From what I am finding, things did not move as smoothly as I had thought. I am sure others will have great experiences installing and using Hardy Heron, and I just have a freak problem with my laptop hardware communicating with the software. As of now, I’ll be staying in Mandriva 2008.

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My install went without a hitch. Most things worked perfectly. I had tried the last alpha, the beta, and then the rc, and all of them had issues that I could not resolve. So, I went into the final with some trepidation. However, like I said, most things went very, very well. And what didn’t work I got to work with minimal effort. I can’t say the same for 7.10. I really had to fight to get that one working just right. A big difference between them was my wireless card. I still had to use ndiswrapper (there’s a GREAT gui for it in Hardy) but I had to modprobe it every time I booted 7.10. With 8.04, however, it works just like it’s supposed to.

So, again, for me, everything seems to be working just great. Install was easy and had no issues. The little tweaks I had to do with 7.10 are completely gone in 8.04. Here’s to the next three years!

Peace be with you.

OD

By: odysseusjak on April 25, 2008
at 3:33 pm

I installed Ubuntu 8.04 yesterday on two PCs, a Dell not yet one year old and a Gateway that is six years old. On the Gateway everything was fine. On the Dell I still don’t have Java working with Firefox. But on a big positive debugging why RealPlayer 11 would not work on the Dell with Ubuntu 8.04 showed me why it would not work with Mandriva 2008.1 either. PulseAudio/Alsa. Once I killed that I elimanated the “show-stopper” in Mandriva and am back in Mandriva again.
Mandriva won big-time with my web-cam+Skype over Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10 and 8.04.

By: ridgeland on April 26, 2008
at 3:29 am

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