Finally Upgrading to Hardy Heron.
April 24, 2008 – 10:52 pmToday is Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron release day. As I type, I’m in the process of upgrading. For those that don’t know, Ubuntu is the Linux distribution I use and unlike MS Windows, Ubuntu releases a full operating system update every 6 months. Each update gets a version number based on the year and month it is released (this one is 8.04 for April 2008) and an animal nickname (I think they’re alphabetic as the last one was Gutsy Gibbon).
There are a lot of little changes and a few major ones. So far all my upgrades have been flawless, but I’m not too worried if things break. My /home folder is stored on a separate partition. It’s totally isolated from the operating system. I’m not going to update the Elisa server until I’m sure things are all kosher. I think Elisa has a few issues with Hardy.
The only problem is that its taking forever. At this very moment millions of nerds are gang-raping the Ubuntu update servers and the traffic is coming to a crawl. I should have downloaded the ISO from the torrent tracker and done an install CD update.
Well, wish me luck!
You can get Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron here.
One Response to “Finally Upgrading to Hardy Heron.”
I’m in the process of upgrading my laptop from Gutsy to Hardy as well, and it’s a lot faster than yesterday.
afaik, Elisa does have a few issues with Hardy, but I’d say overall it works better in Hardy than in Gutsy (most of the developers have been working in Hardy for quite some time now).
I hope your upgrade went well btw :)
By Olivier on Apr 25, 2008