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Ubuntu 8.04 released!

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Or, if you already have Gutsy Gibbon, just click on the update icon, hit update to Hardy Heron, and type your password. Done. :techman:


Highly recommended. This is a long term support release, supported for 3 years (user) and 5 years (server).

This release includes a big GNOME backend overhaul, as well as a lot of back end optimization and performance improvements.

A quick review can be found here:

http://fosswire.com/2008/04/24/ubuntu-804-hardy-heron-review/
 
I installed it on my desktop about 4 days ago ... but I have yet to make out heads or tails out of it in regards to accessing existing files on the HD and the likes.
It's not a problem to navigate the user interface for example, changing resolution and all.
It's mostly simplistic stuff, but the other part is a bit strange.
I grew accustomed to the Windows XP too much and it's way of doing things.
Would be nice to extend my knowledge to Ubuntu though just in case.
:-)
 
I'm planning to upgrade later today. I've had the disc for awhile, but I've been waiting for the update servers to cool down a bit, and I need to back up a few things just in case.

So, any notable problems with this release? I've heard of some problems with sound in some applications thanks to the conversion to Pulse Audio, but there are fixes for that. Anything else I should know about before pushing the button?
 
Well IIRC the conversion to pulse happened in Gutsy, so if anything wrinkles should be more ironed out, no? I haven't noticed any problems with it though I haven't used pulse that much since the update.

I think the major problem have been that the update servers are totally bogged. I have a super fast connection at home but my update took 3 hours or so because I was getting crappy bandwidth.

Otherwise my update (from Gutsy) was totally seamless, all my preferences were in tact, etc. But yes, it'll be really slow to update.
 
Twilight said:
Well IIRC the conversion to pulse happened in Gutsy, so if anything wrinkles should be more ironed out, no? I haven't noticed any problems with it though I haven't used pulse that much since the update.
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Nah, I've been reading about some problems with Skype and a few media players that are Hardy specific. No big deal, though, as it seems they're easily correctable.

And the update servers are still bogged down? It's been nearly two weeks. I guess that's a good thing, in a way. :)
 
I installed this version from scratch the day it was released with zero problems (unlike with 7.10 which wouldn't recognize my ATI HD3450 video card).

I don't know if their servers are still bogged down by lots of people downloading, but I wound up getting a torrent which sped things up greatly.
 
Upgraded from 7.10 last Friday and it was the easiest transition since I have Ubuntu. No errors, and not one single line of configuration was needed.

So far I like it a lot. The boot load time was cut in half, it is faster, and I liked all the new features. The only issue I have is the acceptance of ed2k links in Firefox, despite having it all configured correctly.
 
Warp Core Breach said:
I'm planning to upgrade later today. I've had the disc for awhile, but I've been waiting for the update servers to cool down a bit, and I need to back up a few things just in case.

So, any notable problems with this release? I've heard of some problems with sound in some applications thanks to the conversion to Pulse Audio, but there are fixes for that. Anything else I should know about before pushing the button?
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I've had some problems with pulse in Hardy, specifically, playing back flash videos in Firefox seems to lock up audio for other programs. One way to sort this is to install an additional library that forces flash's audio properly through pulse, rather than allowing it to try and use (and break) ALSA emulation.

Long story short, install the package libflashsupport, either via the GUI package management program, or using the terminal:

Code: 
sudo apt-get install libflashsupport
 
I've got a few Xubuntu (Xfce) and Kubuntu (KDE) machines and had no problems whatsoever with upgrading them to 8.04. :)
 
Twilight, this isn't intended at you, it's intended at the whole FOSS community, so please don't take this personally. :) Keep in mind, I say this as someone running Ubuntu Dapper. That said: So what?! Who cares that Ubuntu 8.04 was "released"? Why does everyone go crazy when a distro cuts a new release, especially if that distro is Ubuntu or Fedora? Is this release new and revolutionary? No. Does everyone that is interested in Ubuntu already know about it? I'm pretty sure, yeah. With, say, Debian or FreeBSD, I can almost see making a big deal about a new release--with the longer release cycles, there's a lot more new stuff to talk about. What does Hardy have that Gutsy doesn't? Well, there's GNOME 2.22 and a bunch of other updated packages. Who cares? Why are we discussing this?

Twilight said:
This release includes a big GNOME backend overhaul,
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Do you mean GVFS? I thought that wasn't finished yet, and I didn't think many applications were using it. Am I misinformed?

Twilight said:
as well as a lot of back end optimization and performance improvements.
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Really? Can you elaborate? I'm genuinely curious--I didn't think there was much to talk about with this release.

Santaman said:
I've got a few Xubuntu (Xfce) and Kubuntu (KDE) machines and had no problems whatsoever with upgrading them to 8.04. :)
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Well, that's good. The last time I tried to update Ubuntu (Breezy to Dapper), it completed borked my system. If I'd had more experience I might have been able to fix it, but in the end I had to reinstall the whole shebang.
 
^^ Yep, I had that happening as well, this time it went without a glitch.
If they keep improving things like they do now then I think that I will eventually move completely to Linux.
 
Alaedhros said:
Is this release new and revolutionary? No. Does everyone that is interested in Ubuntu already know about it? I'm pretty sure, yeah. With, say, Debian or FreeBSD, I can almost see making a big deal about a new release--with the longer release cycles, there's a lot more new stuff to talk about. What does Hardy have that Gutsy doesn't? Well, there's GNOME 2.22 and a bunch of other updated packages. Who cares? Why are we discussing this?
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Marketing, something which Ubuntu has and Debian and FreeBSD don't. That, and things like new and improved colourful icons are easier for people to relate to than fine-grained locking improvements that offer superior multi-processor scalability. (Which are to be found in FreeBSD 7, the release of which was generally ignored by the news sites ;) )
 
rather than starting a new thread I figured I'd ask here . . .

I installed Hardy with wubi (dual boot with xp) a while back, but I haven't booted into it in a couple weeks. It used to boot up fine to the login screen, no problems whatsoever, now when I try to boot into ubuntu it ends up at a terminal instead of the login screen . . . 'help' just pulls up a list of commands, no description of what they do . . . I can't figure it out :(
what can I do to boot up normally?
 
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