Hardy Heron


 

The newest version of Ubuntu, version 8.04 or Hardy Heron to it's friends, was released this week. Rather than waiting for my new discs to come through the post I decided to use the inbuilt update manager to upgrade. It would be a good test of how Ubuntu handled things.

I set it off at about 6:30pm yesterday evening and it had finished downloading and installing the upgrade by about 4am this morning with only minimal interaction from me; regarding obsolete software that it wanted permission to remove. The reason it probably took so long was that when the laptop is running then the net connection is shared between 3 pcs and the fact that it was in the other room and I only checked it occasionally, so I have no idea how long it had sat waiting for my input on the 2 occasions it needed it.

One reboot later and everything is tickety-boo. Nothing is broken and to be honest I think it boots a wee bit quicker. The next big step software-wise is Windows XP SP3 which is officially released this coming Monday.

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