The Heron has landed? [LWN.net]

The Heron has landed?

Posted Apr 25, 2008 10:26 UTC (Fri) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750)
In reply to: The Heron has *crash* landed? by ste
Parent article: The Heron has landed

First of all, Dapper was the previous LTS release. Edgy's security support is just ending,
it's a normal release.

Secondly, there have been a few vocal comments about specific problems with specific hardware,
as always, but I haven't notice any general increase of problems. Mainly it seems better
compared to gutsy with regards to regressions.

Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people are probably already happy 8.04 LTS users, and
millions are on their way. The fact that there is a maintenance release is simply because it
_is_ a long-term supported release, and likewise 6.06 LTS had 6.06.1 (and now 6.06.2 for the
server). 8.04.1 will eg. have all the security updates done to that date, to prevent new
installations needing hundreds of megabytes of downloads. Also, it does naturally give an
opportunity to fix more installer bugs.

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The Heron has landed?

Posted Apr 26, 2008 8:19 UTC (Sat) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]

I've installed Hardy beta without any problems (in a new partition) and it worked well, e.g.
Compiz worked out of the box on my rather old ATI 9250 graphics card, for the first time.

However, I will wait a month or so before upgrading my main desktop box.  Although Hardy is
LTS it's still a little rough around the edges in some places, as with any new distro release
(except perhaps Debian stable which is not as easy to install and not as polished for desktop
end users) - e.g. Hardy  includes Firefox 3 beta, so waiting for that to be released and
included by Hardy would be a good idea.

The Heron has landed?

Posted Apr 26, 2008 20:58 UTC (Sat) by evgeny (subscriber, #774) [Link]

> Hardy  includes Firefox 3 beta, so waiting for that to be released and included by Hardy
would be a good idea.

I believe there are firefox2-* packages as well.

The Heron has landed?

Posted May 3, 2008 0:47 UTC (Sat) by kevinbsmith (subscriber, #4778) [Link]

I upgraded my laptop to Heron a few days before the official release. This 2.5 year old laptop
was bought with Ubuntu pre-installed, and has gone through each upgrade since.

Right after the upgrade to Heron, there were a few glitches, including Compiz disabling the
ability to drag apps between desktops. And pidgin has some annoying new quirks. But all in
all, it seems like a nice stable release. Not a lot that is WAY better, but lots of subtle
improvements.