Gutsy v Hardy

[Neil Winchurst]

Michael Hirsch wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Neil Winchurst <barnaby at drofle.com> wrote:
>>> I have finally installed Hardy as a dual boot with Gutsy. Yes, I know
>>> that Intrepid is now available but it is still too new for me.
>>>
>>> So far I have not found a lot of differences yet. Anyone like to point
>>> out advantages/disadvantage please, and any comments would be interesting.
>> 8.04 can print with my old printer but gutsy could not, the one before
>> that could. I have no idea why. It is a parallel port plugged into a
>> USB and that might be part of the problem. In any case it works now.
> 
> My experience is the opposite.  My printer worked find in Gutsy, but
> doesn't work in Hardy.  I have 3 systems and that is the case with all
> of them.
> 
> The other big difference is that Hardy the long term support release
> (for Ubuntu.  Kubuntu specific packages are not LTS), so if you stay
> on Hardy you'll get security updates for a long time.
> 
> Michael
> 
Interesting. My printer works fine in both Gutsy and Hardy.

The only problem so far is getting Hardy to mount my floppy drive. (Yes, 
I know, but it is useful for keeping backups of my accounts). The fstab 
lines are the same in both G and H so I am now a bit puzzled.

Neil