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- goldfenix, on 03/07/2008, -0/+68Considering this is still in alpha, upgrade was completely painless for me. (Updating from 7.10).
Just wanted to give a thumbs up for those thinking about trying this out.
Oh, and to update, just open up a terminal and type: "update-manager -d" (no quotes) - MonsterChaOS, on 03/07/2008, -3/+31Hey, a useful comment! How 'bout that!
(It's sad I had to scroll down this far just to see one) - so1omon, on 03/07/2008, -0/+23I dropped the brown before I came to work this morning.... wait, what?
- twljagflba, on 03/07/2008, -0/+22Alpha 6 screenshots: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item ...
- tomj88, on 03/07/2008, -1/+20That is to upgrade to a testing version, so it sort of stops people accidentally upgrading when they shouldn't be using alpha/beta software. (update-manager is a gui for updating your system)
- joebeastie, on 03/07/2008, -2/+18Wow, I am so amazed how far Linux has come with the help of projects like Ubuntu. Congrats to everyone involved!
- inactive, on 03/07/2008, -1/+15Really , and what os would you suggest that is better? You sound like someone that doesn't know sh*t about linux
- angers, on 03/07/2008, -0/+14That's interesting because I always thought that the web browser was one of the most important and used program in an operating system...
- kazamx, on 03/07/2008, -0/+13When the finished version is released you have a little orange box appear in the top right hand side of your screen. When you click the box you get a big button that tells you, you can now upgrade to the latest version, and it warns you about problems (just like any software, do backups etc.)
- inactive, on 03/07/2008, -12/+25I'm waiting for Ubuntu Flaccid Fishmonger.
- iRelinquish, on 03/07/2008, -6/+17Way to ruin a good story on digg
- borninda818, on 03/07/2008, -1/+12Sarcasm or Epic Fail? I can't tell.
- LordSkywalker, on 03/07/2008, -0/+10I'm guessing he uses Windows. Statistically, that's the most likely choice.
- GRAVEWiSH, on 03/07/2008, -0/+10are you for real?
- Phocion55, on 03/07/2008, -0/+10New Digg feature suggested: Filtering out useless "So what?", "I don't care", "Old. Buried." comments.
- Carburetor, on 03/07/2008, -1/+10Looks like the concurrent connections limit on windows did something with the oxygen in your brain.
If You think Linux is such a crap, why do you read Linux related posts?
You, sir , are linuxphobe.
You tell everyone you hate it, but you can't wait to stick it up to your ass. - Nanobe, on 03/07/2008, -0/+8A kiddie girl, a dude, and a mom? You have diverse tastes.
By the way, my 7-year-old sister uses Ubuntu, and whenever she's on Windows she complains that it's too hard to find the games. - bigsteve, on 03/07/2008, -2/+10Stupid Sexy Flanders!
- ersnyder, on 03/07/2008, -3/+11The fact that you tracked your comments rating from the story in "upcoming" to the "front page" is astounding. Does your social acceptance balance on the positive/negative reaction to your comments? Jesus, get a life.
- jb0nd38372, on 03/07/2008, -0/+8I think your a piece of ***** for running something down you don't even have a clue about. You do realize that beta's lead to production quality releases, right?
- 000dom000, on 03/07/2008, -1/+9https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseSchedule
Next month - nytel, on 03/07/2008, -0/+8Excellent! I've discovered Ubuntu a year ago and have just recently started using it. I've leart a lot through the community and am enjoying every moment of it!
- Phocion55, on 03/07/2008, -0/+8Hit "Refresh" on the page.....it clearly didn't fully load for you.
- bagboyrebel, on 03/07/2008, -1/+9yes it is
/posting from an ubuntu machine - 1longtime, on 03/07/2008, -1/+8Intoxicated Iguana
- cyberwiz01, on 03/07/2008, -0/+7Both.
- ElbertF, on 03/07/2008, -0/+7Considering we passed the F already, that would be a long wait.
- rabidg00se, on 03/07/2008, -1/+7feels like i'm wearing nothing at all....
- inactive, on 03/07/2008, -0/+6I've ran alpha 5 for while without issue its been very stable. Even seems faster than previous versions!.
- andycr512, on 03/07/2008, -0/+6They advertised Internet Explorer 7 as a new feature in Vista.
- TheCoreh, on 03/07/2008, -1/+7Krusty Krab.
- Tyr7BE, on 03/07/2008, -1/+6Weren't we supposed to get a new theme in this release?
- MWeather, on 03/07/2008, -0/+5Ubuntu mainly deals with issues arising from stitching together software libraries that have already been thoroughly tested and in most cases, are already deployed elsewhere. Microsoft has to do it all themselves.
And you're fooling yourself if you think Canonical has no financial stake in Ubuntu's stability. - mrsteveman1, on 03/07/2008, -0/+5Update-manager is a gui....
- MrGreencastle, on 03/07/2008, -0/+4Considering that Ubuntu is open-source software - developed by many people all over the world - as well as Firefox, I wouldn't be surprised if the developers of Ubuntu do indeed have something to do with the development of Firefox 3. Like the guy above me said, I think you are a Linuxphobe with no idea of how it works or how it is developed.
- anthonylitz, on 03/07/2008, -0/+4*The new graphic detection system is great! This is the first Ubuntu distro I was able to put into this Toshiba Satellite P205D laptop, and it "just worked".
*I had no wifi (surprise).
*Even though Wubi worked on the last alpha release for this machine (vista) it does not work this time. Even if I go to the root of the CD and run Wubi.exe, no worky.
*This release is really exciting ...for me at least :) I can't wait until next month now. - DarkDx, on 03/07/2008, -3/+7Wonderful Weed
- reclusivemonkey, on 03/08/2008, -0/+4It makes the front page because people digg it. That's how digg WORKS.
- claco, on 03/07/2008, -0/+4I've had a strange Ubuntu issue ever since 7.04.
Large internet file downloads just ramp up to and past my internet connection max speed (6MB DSL/~600k/sec) then die. This happens on Ubuntu on my old laptop as the primary OS, my new laptop under Parallels on OSX, using two different wireless cards, using two different WAPs on my network. I never have this problem with XP, OSX or FreeBSD. No amount of futzing with my MTU has ever helped the problem.
I've posted to the Ubuntu forums a few times with no help on the matter. And smater Diggers ever seen this issue? - cawpin, on 03/07/2008, -0/+4What version are you using? WPA has been a very easy to use GUI since 2 versions ago and it never forgot the key when I used it.
- Darksaber11, on 03/07/2008, -0/+4Bad idea, but it's an understandable sentiment.
- shethinkmefunny, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3not as long as it keeps using Pirut for a package manager.....
- evilregis, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3I've never seen such a thing. Have you installed any other linux distros on it?
- aywwts4, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3Not saying you didn't experience any problems. But as a cautionary counterpoint to show that it isn't all roses to those thinking of upgrading.
Xorg needed to be restarted every five minutes, firefox would shutdown completely, the system would hard lockup every so often, and my mouse would randomly right click constantly (Try typing anything or fixing any problem like that). I reported the bugs but now I'm back to 7.10 and wont upgrade until one of the later betas. Though I like the new background, its much better than 7.10 default. - kazamx, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3I guess it depends on what effect adding that semi colon to the kernel had. If it was the last change in a series of changes that added a whole new feature, then yup I want to know about it.
***** if we get a million stories on the iphone, I have no problem with plenty of Ubuntu stories. - colto, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3The new theme got pushed to the next version due to this being a LTS release. They didn't want to change the theme all of a sudden for a long term service contract. Not totally sure why that matters so much but that's what happened.
- andycr512, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3With an option to block those who wrote them. I have to do it manually, and I'm worried that my block button will get worn out soon.
- SigmundFraud, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3Ubuntu generally sticks to a six month release schedule. The numbering comes from year.month, hence: 7.04 was April 07, 7.10 was October 07 and 8.04 will be April 08.
- kazamx, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3I really hope they don't listen to users and make it blue. Blue like XP, blue like Vista and blue like OSX. While i'm not keen on the brown, it does make an Ubuntu desktop stand out.
Oh and they whole theme is being reworked for the next release. It was delayed from this release as its an LTS and its dumb to make big changes in an LTS. - motang, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3Last I heard it wasn't going to happen, but with the screen shots (http://www.thecodingstudio.com/opensource/linux/sc ... it looks like it was changed a bit, maybe by Beta 1 we will see something.
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