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Hardy Heron open for uploads

Posted Oct 25, 2007 22:45 UTC (Thu) by bfields (subscriber, #19510)
In reply to: Hardy Heron open for uploads by rrdharan
Parent article: Hardy Heron open for uploads

Does Ubuntu even claim to support the drivers you're using?

stop offering upgrade. It never works,

The Feisty->Gutsy upgrade worked on my machine. And I've been continuously tracking debian sid (on which it's based) with multiple machines for years with only rare problems.

and it's clearly not well tested, so just don't claim to support it so we don't waste our time trying it.

I'd rather they fixed upgrade bugs than ditch upgrading entirely; reinstalling is time-consuming, and I worry about the amount of testing the new version will get if people can't upgrade to it easily as it's under development.

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Hardy Heron open for uploads

Posted Oct 26, 2007 7:19 UTC (Fri) by pointwood (guest, #2814) [Link]

I have a feeling that many of the failed upgrades are from systems where the person have
installed non-supported software. It's simply impossible for the Ubuntu team to test that.

Hardy Heron open for uploads

Posted Oct 26, 2007 16:04 UTC (Fri) by kotoku (guest, #48697) [Link]

Maybe late on the comments on the upgrade from feisty to gutsy but I did a full network upgrade on my amd64 machine and it took about nearly 3hrs to download all the packages. Came back later and had to use CLI and use dpkg to complete. Everything well very well including the new kernel all in place, rebooted flawless. Most people new to the command line need a little hand holding but its not that hard. Great work by the dev team. I use both .deb and .rpm aka Red Hat Fedora, but found great stability and satisfaction in the .dep distros.

Hardy Heron open for uploads

Posted Oct 26, 2007 19:57 UTC (Fri) by TomDownSouth (guest, #31105) [Link]

I also experienced a smooth upgrade, approx 1 hour to download, 2 hours to reinstall. Fresh
reboot and finally my wifi worked with nm-applet. This is an old AMD64 laptop.