The other day I upgraded to the Hardy Heron beta, and the experience - as expected - was mostly flawless.
I inititated the upgrade last thing at night and left it downloading. The next morning it was waiting for me to answer a question, which I did and then continued working while it proceeded in the background. It needed input from me a few times concerning configuration files, but for the most part no interaction was required. A while later it was complete and asked me to reboot. I did because it was a convenient time for me, but throughout the whole process I just carried on working with no problems at all.
I’ve no experience of upgrading (or even installing) OS X, but I know the same experience would be difficult to replicate on Microsoft Windows, especially when you consider that all my applications were upgraded at the same time as the Operating System.
Once Hardy is formally released - and I’ve got the opportunity - I plan to completely re-install this machine and wipe all traces of Microsoft Windows from it forever (Vista is still lurking around on here, wasting space along with a defunct recovery partition).
So if like me you’re waiting for the release of Hardy, add the counter to your website. Find the massively complicated installation instructions here.
Tags: hardy heron, Linux, ubuntu
I had an issue with the beta until i got an update last night. Now, mostly everything is going ok. Had a problem with tracker today. It was taking up about a gig of ram. Maybe a rabid malloc! If I get time i will dig into it.
Hardy is a party! My system has been working flawless since alpha4. I didn’t even experience a problem that some testers did with the update on alpha 6 and libc6.
The new features are awesome, WUBI is great, virtual manager is nice, though I still like virtualbox a bit better for now. The updated GNOME and the glassy look is nice. If the improvements keep coming every 6 months like they have been since WARTY, I’ll bet by 10.04 Canonical will have a windows killer that every one will want! 10.4 will be the most significant release ever to me just because it’s close enough to call the inverse of WARTY 4.10
Linux 2.6.24-12-386 (which seems to be the default version in Hardy) does not boot my computer. However, Linux 2.6.24-12-generic works flawlessly even with madwifi and nvidia.
The update process is painless, and my experience is that the system is faster and consumes less RAM. I installed also Firefox3 in the process, and I just can’t believe firefox is able to run so fast.
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