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Title: New Ubuntu out, anyone played with it yet?
Post by: Mongoose on April 25, 2008, 11:38:55 AM
as above really, has anyone played with Hardy Heron yet?

Is 8.04 worth the upgrade from 7.10?
Title: New Ubuntu out, anyone played with it yet?
Post by: Mardoni on April 25, 2008, 11:46:56 AM
The upgrade bricked our test box/music player in the office. So no, not played with it yet :/
Title: Re:New Ubuntu out, anyone played with it yet?
Post by: Grey M@a on April 25, 2008, 11:49:24 AM
Got it installing into a virtual machine for now and all seems to be fine so far. There are a few issues with the updater but that is due to the VM bogging down atm.
Title: New Ubuntu out, anyone played with it yet?
Post by: Sam on April 25, 2008, 12:45:10 PM
Another stupid name then.
Waste of Time is the name of V9 apparantly.
Title: New Ubuntu out, anyone played with it yet?
Post by: Mongoose on April 25, 2008, 15:18:27 PM
Quote from: SamAnother stupid name then.
Waste of Time is the name of V9 apparantly.

Because Long Horn is such a sensible name.
Title: Re:New Ubuntu out, anyone played with it yet?
Post by: Shakey on April 25, 2008, 17:17:53 PM
Seems pretty similar to the previous version atm, though Ive not had a proper play yet (though as expected it comes with newer versions of all the apps). One major bonus is that its an LTS version, so will be supported for a long time.
Title: Re:New Ubuntu out, anyone played with it yet?
Post by: Mongoose on April 28, 2008, 10:16:02 AM
Quote from: ShakeyOne major bonus is that its an LTS version, so will be supported for a long time.

thats one of the reasons Im interested. Also my laptop is a mess and the partitions are not as sensible as they initially seemed so Im thinking of wiping it and starting afreash. Ive also got to build a box for my grandparents shortly, which is probably going to be Ubuntu based, all nicely automated and remotely controlable so I can administer it from afar. Im damned if Im going to learn how Vista works just so I can fix my grandparents machine.
Title: New Ubuntu out, anyone played with it yet?
Post by: skidzilla on May 01, 2008, 13:09:09 PM
I tried the Kubuntu KDE 4 re-spin.

KDE 4 needs a LOT of work before Ill use it over 3.5.9.
Title: New Ubuntu out, anyone played with it yet?
Post by: Mongoose on May 01, 2008, 14:22:50 PM
Quote from: skidzillaI tried the Kubuntu KDE 4 re-spin.

KDE 4 needs a LOT of work before Ill use it over 3.5.9.

A lot of distros seem to agree with you, in that it seems to be an option on many but not standard anywhere Ive noticed (granted I havent looked that hard).
Title: Re:New Ubuntu out, anyone played with it yet?
Post by: Pete on May 02, 2008, 23:00:00 PM
No.
Title: Re:New Ubuntu out, anyone played with it yet?
Post by: Rivkid on May 06, 2008, 16:21:18 PM
yeah - its insalled some f**ked up flash plugin that isnt adobe and its crap. all flash movies now jerk at about 1 frame per year and I cant get rid of the fecking thing. I might go back to FF on this lappy actually as I lost my wobbly windows when I went to GG and I want them back dammit!!!