Comments | recumbenteer: For those considering upgrading to Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04)

recumbenteer

For those considering upgrading to Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04)

May 01, 2008 10:11

Don't.
It's still in beta.
I did the install and lost the my wireless. I suspect it might give me problems with my CD ROM too.
If you are using Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10) stay with it until they've had a chance to shake the bugs out.

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cheshirenoir May 1 2008, 10:53:47 UTC

Hah! I've been running it since late beta...

recumbenteer May 2 2008, 02:48:38 UTC

Ok now I'm really confused.
I spent the morning looking into my wireless grief. I should have used this time to study, but that's another story.

Using some command line tools (mostly ifconfig, dhclient and iwconfig) I was able to connect enough for my wireless router to give me an IP. But when I tried to ping the router, visit a web page or do anything else on the network I get a 'destination host unreachable' message.

I'm not sure what's going on there.

Correction - Sometimes I can ping my router when on wireless only. recumbenteer May 2 2008, 03:42:48 UTC

OK, some odd behaviour here. Compare these two ping requests ( ... )

reddragdiva May 1 2008, 20:33:46 UTC

Or at least "test it with the LiveCD first."

I usually run the next version from about three months before release, as this makes it 100% more likely my bugs will be acted upon.

As it happens, this Compaq 6710b laptop does MUCH better with Hardy than Gutsy.

recumbenteer May 1 2008, 23:54:02 UTC

Well ok,
A bit of titting about has softened my initial impression.
Whilst I've still got issues with my wireless - that's probably specific to my hardware and I expect fixable. I suspect I'll need to get my head around the new PolicyKit to get wireless networking up again - failing find and edit the relevant config files.

The rest of it seems shiny.

I have to admit the "new upgrade available" message makes it a little too easy to go from Gibbon to Heron. It makes it feels like a bug patch and that underplays what's really going on.

txxxpxx May 2 2008, 01:49:26 UTC

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No, not related to your post at all. Just a blatant plug & lots of wishing.

:-)

recumbenteer May 2 2008, 02:49:59 UTC

Stuff on after assignments ... curious concept.
Needs further investigation.

txxxpxx May 4 2008, 02:39:19 UTC

visit gothcamp journal for more details.

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What more do you need to know? ;-)