Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu 8.04 is in the wild

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Author: Charlie de Courcy
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu 8.04 is in the wild
Interest and cutting edge?

I had a couple of stability problems on my desktop that have now been
resolved.
It's nice to have a lots of the latest and greatest packages straight
out of repos.

Charlie


Chris. Aubrey-Smith said the following on 25/04/08 10:26:
> Why all the rush? I've ordered a CD which I have no doubt will (yawn)
> arrive in due course, at which time I shall take a look. I'll decide
> then if I want to bother upgrading from Gutsy.
>
> Meanwhile, Etch continues to do everything I need....
>
> Chris.
>
> On 25/04/2008, *Sean Gibbins* <sean@???
> <mailto:sean@funkygibbins.me.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Craig wrote:
>     > Glad you're all have such luck.
>     > Opened up the update manager and clicked on the Upgrade button.
>     After
>     > about half an hour the Release notes come up. Click upgrade, and it
>     > successfully downloads the upgrade tool before soon hanging on
>     'Checking
>     > Package Manager' on the distribution upgrade.
>     > Still trying to find a fix - I'm not the only one with this issue it
>     > seems. Interestingly, this is the same place as the 'Unable to
>     get an
>     > exclusive Outlook' message box pops up sometimes.
>     > I guess I'll just keep looking.

>
>
>     I've only got one Xubuntu machine left to upgrade now having been
>     running the release candidate of Ubuntu for a few days on my other
>     machines. Dunno if I want to join the queue or wait a few days for all
>     the fuss to calm down - I suspect the latter might be the sensible
>     thing
>     to do.

>
>     As for issues, none to speak of having upgraded 3 desktops and a
>     laptop.
>     I think one of the desktops needed a tweak to accommodate the swap
>     from
>     bcm43xx to b43 wireless nic driver, but that was about the sum of it.

>
>
>     Sean

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