Hi, Hope you all are doing fine this morning. I too, upgraded my Gutsy to Hardy without any problem. Even installed KDE 4 and its running perfectly alright.
Regards Ammar On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 00:41 +0400, Brad Campbell wrote: > Sofian Rahmani wrote: > > Phew, finally. I am proud to announce that, after three days of > > struggling, I have a working Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron LTS copy > installed > > on my system. Yay me! > > Have any of you upgraded? What do you think? As for me, I think > that > > it's mostly a stabler, more eye-candiesh version of Gutsy. They > added a > > few features, in different programs, here and there; but most of > the > > menus and stuff are the same. It's a better experience than Gutsy, > though. > > I've been running hardy since early beta on a test laptop, and I > upgraded my desktop mac-mini from > Gutsy to Hardy with zero hitches (but it's a plain vanilla machine > with no tweaks). > > My laptop has been running Dapper since it was late beta, but I've > upgraded bits of it with very > recent kde, hal, parts of gnome, latest firefox and thunderbird, and > very hacked custom kernels with > all sorts of jiggery-pokery.. > > It was with *much* trepidation that I decided to try a basic "as per > the instructions" upgrade from > 6.06 to 8.04. Except for an issue with initramfs-tools (had to work > around the installed kernel > having a '-' local prefix) and some issues with the dpkg-divert's I > used for firefox and thunderbird > it was as smooth as a babys bottom. I'm super impressed.. No really! > > I've got issues with a load of kde programs being installed and not > having icons in the menus, but > then I built kde 3.5 from experimental deb source ages ago to upgrade > kpilot, so I'm not really > surprised. It all works and I've lost no functionality. On the other > hand it's freaking HUGE!!!!! > > My old dapper install breezed into a 5G / partition with plenty (and I > mean over a gig) of room to > spare. This beast sucks space like a Black hole! > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda5 4.6G 4.3G 85M 99% / > > I've _got_ to figure out where I can trim some fat as I'm not willing > to compromise on my 5G / and > 5G /home scheme (makes it far to easy to back up onto DVD as I never > used to exceed 4.2G on either. > > Like I said, I've been playing with it for a while on my test laptop, > so I don't expect any > surprises, but I'm very impressed with the way the upgrade went.. > very.. > > I've cc'd this to Dubai-lug.. maybe we'll see some more people try out > Ubuntu :) > > (Oh, forgot. The upgrade took 2 hrs + time to download 1G of .debs on > a 1.2Ghz Pentium-M _slow_ > machine). Not too shabby. Took me another hour to work the bugs out > (but they were caused due to my > custom hacks and non-ubuntu way of doing some stuff) > > Brad > -- > "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability > to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable > for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams > > > >
