Since Ubuntu 8.04 has been released i wonder if anyone has tried it, im still downloading it at the moment but im interested to know if anyone has tried it yet, and how they think it compares to the previous releases

I'm doing a buddy-system download: I download the server iso and my friend downloads the desktop iso, then we burn eachother disks and that way each only have to download one iso instead of 2. Mine will be done in about half an hour... excited!

Well I haven't really had much of a chance to check it out, but so far it's a definite improvement over previous versions.

First up, it actually runs on my laptop now (previous versions failed due to video driver issues). From zero points to some points, % improve -> /0 error

Secondly, I've been able to install it and more importantly GRUB on a USB HDD attached to the Lappy (mind you, I had to edit the GRUB config file for it to load partitions correctly).

I like how it has a windows installer now. This will make it much easier for windows users to upgrade. I'll probably keep using windows xp as my primary OS, but for the next computer I build or buy, I'm thinking I'll probably just go with Ubuntu, now that it has such wide support.

ive been having problems with getting the propriety nvidia driver working so ive installed 7.10 and im going to upgrade once i download ubuntu 8.04 alternative, i dont want to use the network upgrade thingy cause the download speed was fluctuating to much when i was using it

Hey i use 7.10 and i ask you Hadry Heron users what are the changes ?

i dunno i havent noticed anything speciffically different though i havent run either 7.10 or 8.04 enough to know.
the default resolution for 8.04 is 800x600 now rather then some ludicrously high one

I've been using ubuntu 8.04 for over a month now. I really like it. I've tried ubuntu in the past but didn't think much of it. Not enough to change anyway. Which brings me to this. I have for the first time ever been using Linux exclusively for over a month now. I really like using Linux. Especially ubuntu 8.04

One of the main changes I notice is that Compiz is included in the installer.

stealing my old thread, anyone tried Ubuntu 8.10

I'm using 8.04 at home almost exclusively since more than half a year now, before that I dual-booted windows xp. Now Ubuntu is the default boot option and when I feel the need to use Windows, I boot my XP virtualbox. However, I havent upgraded yet.

Edit 01.11.2008:
using 8.10 since one day now, the upgrade went flawless, except for the fact I had to make space on "/" since I made the (wrong) assumption when I first set up the system that 5 GB would be enough for it. And I almost forgot, if you modified any system configuration files (/etc/...), be prepared for the inquisition! The upgrader will ask if it can overwrite your changes (with the option to have a look at the differences before it does so).

One thing I noticed, I seem to have trouble with hibernate now, the first try after the upgrade ended with "soft lockup in CPU#0 detected", however the second try showed some error messages, but hibernation and wakeup worked.

However, I haven't lost hope yet that this problem will be fixed in due time, the release is only 2 or 3 days old now.

Another thing I noticed, but to my liking, is the new UserSwitcher applet, which now combines the IM status and restart/shutdown options. There may be a drawback however for some people, if you select "logout", you will be logged out. There is no "do you really want to logout? Yes/No" dialog popping up. And so far I haven't found a switch to enable such a thing.

Other than that I have not found any big changes (yet). But I haven't gone around poking into the systems internals until now.

I like 8.10 - the only troubles were related to compiz where the 8.04 worked very well and now from time to time the top of the window seems to glitch a bit.

8.10 brings a tabbed gnome a bit like firefox does and native support the Huawei 3G USB connect card from Vodafone and other communications operators.

Last but not least, it comes with tool for creating USB bootable pendisks to install Ubuntu from USB drives.

do you mean when the titlebar sort of goes white and u sort of have to minimise and stuff to get to go back and only happens on clear looks ubnuntu human theme but doesnt happen on the older bluish one?

Yes, that describes very well the situation I experienced

I will try other themes, in 8.04 I wasn't using the human theme but rather a XP zune theme that looked really good.

Thanks.

i've been dual booting with ubuntu since 6.10, and easily i can say 8.10 is great. a few setbacks though. my 9600GT works with it, i get dual monitor (horizontal, side by side) but the hardware effects don't work, if i enable them, i just get an error. also, during boot, i had to change it to "all_generic_ide" to see any progress. past that, i can't complain. audio works, i get both monitors, i can browse YouTube through totem (and what i listen to gets added to a playlist, so i can save that playlist, and it'll just stream through totem, which is great when i don't have the music).

i've used it to burn DVDs, CDs, and no problems really, i know my burner is dying though.

i also have my complaints with software, VMWare doesn't work, VirtualBox has too many issues, and the startup process still takes too long.

beyond that, 8.10 is a good transition if you upgrade from an earlier version, but the transition from windows to ubuntu has too many gaps, and i almost feel that 7.10 is more suitable.

what issues does VirtualBox have? I use it for a XP installation and it works quite well. Cant complain here..

i think i installed vituralbox on ubuntu 8.04 and it worked but i didnt find out taht it didnt come with a video driver for 98se til after id isntalled it which annoyed me.

as for ubuntu 8.10 the ubgrade process using the 8.10 alternative disk worked fine, im not used to using adifferent place for shutdown menu thing.

maybe it wasnt just ubuntu human that had glitches but ive really only tried 2 themes maybe cause i didnt think i should try windows like themes on linux, cause i think i saw that glitch with one of the other themes that brownish one.

UBUNTU.???(NOT TRIED YET!)..,XUBUNTU(GNOME)-O.K....,OR ALAS KUBUNTU(KDE)-KOOL!....AS FOR ALL 8.10 i386 DESKTOPS:I LIKE XUBUNTU FOR pII-350/384MBRAM;BUT NOT EVEN CLOSE TO THE QUALITY OF KUBUNTU ON A pIII-500/512MBRAM MoBo

Xubuntu doesnt use Gnome it use XFCE

hmm i find that i prefer Gnome and XFCE over KDE now, although i have a few versions of kubuntu i dont remember using it for very long think last time was Kubuntu 6.06

I tried an earlier 8 and version 7 of the OS. I never could figure out the GRUB initialization error at the time, about almost a year ago, where a loader couldn't be made for some reason or another but as of a few days ago trying the 8.10 version I must say that I am hooked.

All of the hardware I currently have works with Ubuntu 8.10. I connected my Olympus DS-30 and the OS detected it as a DS_30 folder for opening, no need to install the Oly software which is really cool.

One problem users are going to run into is that of having Ubuntu, or any type of Linux for that matter, to work with the newer Westell/Verizon modems because of a reactivation package embedded in them. This flash-based garbage, along with the need for IE exclusively, to reactivate the Verizon service, is utter garbage

To fix this problem you will need to call up Verizon for a manual ID and Pass and depending on who you get on the phone you may get hesitation since it is stated that on Verizon's site: "We do not support Linux" though ironically Verizon itself runs on some flavor of Linux.

I have an older Bell Atlantic Modem from 2002 and I had no problems at all creating the connection and connecting.

I will be installing Ubuntu without Windows and use Wine for a few programs like Virtualdub and some others.

Ubuntu is the only GNU/Linux distro that actually liked my Radeon 9250. I can run Compiz-Fusion out-of-the-box! I'm really loving 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" -- 8.04 came with the Firefox 3 beta, which crashed on me a lot, and there was also a Compiz-Fusion bug that would lock up my system. The one thing that almost held me back when I switched to Ubuntu a year ago was the file manager's lack of tabbed browsing, but everything about KDE aside from its file manager annoyed me, so it wasn't too painful a sacrifice. Now there are no worries, and I hear the next version of Nautilus is supposed to be even better.

I've tried ubuntu 8.10 in my "Demon_prince" Laptop...................

GREAT..............

My mouse still doesn't work when it loads into setup. Pretty much the same as the last time I tried it (v6 or 5 or thereabouts). Pretty much makes it a non-starter for me.

Ubuntu did run okey on my Asus laptop, but unfortunately there was sound problem with Skype - when listening mp3 before using Skype, sound for Skype did not work more. After log off and back on, it was okey for Skype, but then again, mp3 didn't play Seems like whatever program used sound first, occupy it and it came not available for other programs same time :S
Well, with help of a friend of mine, i fixed that ,but then after new updates it was scrued again and i didn't bother more spend hours to start fix all over again, and maybe would work again till new updates... I removed Ubuntu for now from my system.

are you using a serial mouse?

Yes.

try having a look at this cause ive had this problem before
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=99366