Ubuntu 8.10 release candidate available

Posted Oct 26, 2008 8:15 UTC (Sun) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750)
In reply to: Ubuntu 8.10 release candidate available by jlokier
Parent article: Ubuntu 8.10 release candidate available

[quote]The list is quite long, just from trying Intrepid's kernel on a Hardy system.[/quote]

Optimal functioning of the kernel depend on a number of user-space tools, thus the experience from running Intrepid's kernel on Hardy might not reflect the real situation.

That said, if you're using _Long-Term Supported_ release and you are even happy with it, please consider staying with it :) That's what the LTS releases are for.

Ubuntu 8.10 release candidate available

Posted Oct 31, 2008 3:47 UTC (Fri) by jlokier (guest, #52227) [Link]

I must give full credit to Ubuntu for an excellent job.

All of the kernel bugs I found, and described above, were in late beta kernels, but by the time of the official release just two weeks later, they all seem to be fixed. That's very good considering how many tricky ones there were. Even the subtle ftrace bug was implicated and fixed in the time window :-)

I took the plunge and am now happily using Intrepid with an Intrepid kernel. :-)