Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Released !

No i meant Ubuntu..thanks though.


@pat Is ubuntu ultimate edition Live cd??

A blog post about Hardy issues by Google's Matt Cutts: Six Annoyances in Hardy Heron Ubuntu

Got the amd64/intel64 disc and it wouldn't boot in demo mode!!!!

THe ubuntu loading bar goes for some time then I am thrown to a "initramfs" prompt!

Please ALT+F1 & ALT+F8 to see what exactly is happening?

also post the output of "dmesg".

I have 7.10 installed for a long time now, maybe its 7.04. I have a custom updated kernel with the latest catalyst drivers which is super stable and also lots of software. I honestly haven't booted Linux for ages now. Have been playing with OSX and other things. Wondering whether to install 8.04, its going to take a lot of time to get the system customised to my needs. Any compelling reasons? I guess this is the dilemma for all people with new releases.

If you are happy with your Present system then there is no need but if you are ready to Explore and look for a New,Improved and More Polished Desktop then you can try it.
Features | Ubuntu Desktop Edition
What's new in 8.04 | Ubuntu

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Its a live dvd of about 1.6 or 1.8 GB IIRC I am myself going to give it a go some time this weekend!

ok 8.04 is getting annoying....

while updating today, it asked for "what to do" about menu.lst, it normally adds the new kernel entries on its own, this time, there was an experimental option to merge the change, which failed when i tried it.

now i dont mind messing around menu.lst in a console (i actually enjoy messing around like this) but what about regular users who will be totally confused? this happened on my tablet pc, my desktop is still downloading the updates as i type this rant, but i think the same will happen here.

so now im going to install Fedora 9 on my tablet PC to see if it's newer kernel will let my wireless work with less manual steps...

and before Darky chimes in, yes, i will also overwrite 8.04 on my desktop with the latest Mandriva today, and update my rig page as he asked

i'll only go back to ubuntu if one of the soon follow-up releases like 8.04.1 fixes these silly issues, or just wait to see how Intrepid Ibex in October turns out...

The funny thing is this is an LTS release.
This is why Ubuntu is not taking off in the enterprise, and RHEL and SUSE still rule there. They do far more testing.

So its update time. Do update us with F9 results

+1 Also I think Ubuntu took Hardy lightly.. Cause it was tooo much hyped and that makes them over confident, thats why nothing going in Canonical favor atm //

yea, i was always impressed that such a small team produced the best distro (IMO) out there in such short time, they probably find it really hard to thoroughly test...

plus, i guess they probably fell for the thoughts like Fedora is usually on the cutting edge (but a bit buggy) and Ubuntu uses older but stabler upstream releases...

Even F9 has one kernel version higher (.25) than Hardy (.24)...

But anyways, Feisty and Gutsy were awesome releases, I hope they learn and recover with solid Intrepid release (or maybe even fix the issues with the 8.04.1 release)...

Until then, F9 and Mandriva, here I come!

I dunno if the other terminals would be alive just then, because this is failure in the kernel boot stage itself I think. Same reason no dmesg either

But will try again today, after I set RAID up for my primary drives. Didn't get time since that day cause I had hard disks to get rma'ed and no free hdd to try this on. I generally keep each new OS on separate drive as a precaution, lest they mess some thing else.

Sorry for the unrelated query.

I am planning to buy a new laptop in a couple of weeks, and I am planning to install Hardy 64-bit (already downloaded! ) on it as the primary OS.

Now, I just moved to a new city (Bangalore - Banaswadi(?) Area) and I might have to move again. And I have lived with a 256 kbps unlimited Airtel broadband connection for the past 3-4 years, and I think it would be very, very difficult for me to survive for too long without a broadband connection.

So, what I think I need is a USB-based broadband mobile wireless connection. Like the TATA Indicom plug2surf.

My question is, do any of such connections work with Hardy 64-bit?

And are any such unlimited-downloads-reasonable-speeds connections available?

I posted the same query in the ISP talk section, thanks for the people who replied there too.

Now, for some Ubuntu specific geek help...

And no, I don't think I want to install Mandriva now; I just entered a new job, I will be really busy for the next few months; I don't want to take the trouble of learning a new OS.

TATA Indicom plug2sirf Officially works on Linux
Check tata website. check FEATURES tab
USB Modem, Wireless Internet Modem & Internet Cards from Tata Indicom

Apart from it BSNL EVDO is also reported to work nicely


Why you going for 64bit?
why specific reason?