Comments on: Hardy Is Here

By: Adam Williamson

Adam Williamson — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:27:19 +0000

Congratulations on the release, mate.

By: buddy

buddy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:22:11 +0000

You guys and the whole Ubuntu community rock!! i’ve been using ubuntu for over a year now since i dumped Vista. This is the easiest and most powerful distribution ever. Migrating from Vista to ubuntu is just like changing my cellphone: easy. Is there anyway the gnome guys or ubuntu guys will take a more serious look at the artwork? we need to impress people who judge from look, dyou know.

By: Martin Sevior

Martin Sevior — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:44:45 +0000

“Everyone should be able to help in a way that is comfortable and familiar to them, whether developers, artists, musicians, testers, triagers, translators, documentation writers, advocates, event organisers or otherwise – and I am pleased to see that this is happening”

I’m sorry Jon, but if you want to look at a glaring failure of this policy to work check out bug 202174

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword/+bug/202174

Ryan went WAY beyond the call of duty and sweated blood to try to get abiword-2.6.2 into Hardy but failed.

Don’t just count successes and I know you’ve had a lot of those, look at failures too.

By: yungchin

yungchin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:08:14 +0000

Many congratulations. I hadn’t upgraded lately, and am much impressed by the new product. Coolest feature so far: configuring external laptop displays without restarting X. This is really becoming a superior desktop distro. Last hurdle I can see: the GUI part of network-manager needs reworking, but it’s not worse than the Mac and WinXP equivalents, which are also unnavigateable. I’ll try to contribute to the next version of network-manager. Thanks!!

By: tretle

tretle — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:45:36 +0000

wohoo… great release.. been using it for a long time too the website and forum improvements are great too Long time fan of pink floyd yet it was the first time i saw this music video for high hopes tonight, I wonder whether mark was a fan cause near the end you can see the original ubuntu logo(people in the circle holding hands)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8ioavsW0tgI

By: Neil Wallace

Neil Wallace — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:30:38 +0000

This gives me a nice problem, I have Gutsy on 5 pcs here at home. I've always used the graphical dist-upgrade tool, but seems a bit bandwidth hoggy to do that 5 times!

Anyway of caching the packages locally? I guess I download the iso, burn it, then add that disk to my sources?

Great Blog Jono.

By: troll

troll — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:22:02 +0000

I am seriously impressed. I slapped in the CD, installation was fast and straightforward, reboot and after that I got to really get impressed. Fast, things (like multimedia support) work rock solid, and all the hardware I have just works. I have used some 10+ distributions in the past and so far Hardy Heron seems simply the most advanced and best working of them all.

I even rushed to test to open some OOXML documents from my work email. They opened. Out of the box. I am really impressed.

The previous releases I would not have seriously yet recommended for average joe. Now I got to say I'd rather recommend Hardy than Vista, and it's the first.

By: Anders Rune Jensen

Anders Rune Jensen — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:11:27 +0000

Congrats! Ubuntu is getting better and better the whole time. Keep up the good work.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:03:06 +0000

Any idea when vmware images will be ready? http://isv-image.ubuntu.com/vmware/

By: Russ

Russ — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:59:08 +0000

So…when does an intrepid directory show up and new packages start being uploaded? 2.6.25? gnome 2.23? I always get itchy during the freeze.