[Ubuntu-AE] Local Ubuntu Mirror

[Brad Campbell]

Sofian Rahmani wrote:
> Phew, finally. I am proud to announce that, after three days of 
> struggling, I have a working Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron LTS copy installed 
> on my system. Yay me!
> Have any of you upgraded? What do you think? As for me, I think that 
> it's mostly a stabler, more eye-candiesh version of Gutsy. They added a 
> few features, in different programs, here and there; but most of the 
> menus and stuff are the same. It's a better experience than Gutsy, though.

I've been running hardy since early beta on a test laptop, and I upgraded my desktop mac-mini from 
Gutsy to Hardy with zero hitches (but it's a plain vanilla machine with no tweaks).

My laptop has been running Dapper since it was late beta, but I've upgraded bits of it with very 
recent kde, hal, parts of gnome, latest firefox and thunderbird, and very hacked custom kernels with 
all sorts of jiggery-pokery..

It was with *much* trepidation that I decided to try a basic "as per the instructions" upgrade from 
6.06 to 8.04. Except for an issue with initramfs-tools (had to work around the installed kernel 
having a '-' local prefix) and some issues with the dpkg-divert's I used for firefox and thunderbird 
it was as smooth as a babys bottom. I'm super impressed.. No really!

I've got issues with a load of kde programs being installed and not having icons in the menus, but 
then I built kde 3.5 from experimental deb source ages ago to upgrade kpilot, so I'm not really 
surprised. It all works and I've lost no functionality. On the other hand it's freaking HUGE!!!!!

My old dapper install breezed into a 5G / partition with plenty (and I mean over a gig) of room to 
spare. This beast sucks space like a Black hole!

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5             4.6G  4.3G   85M  99% /

I've _got_ to figure out where I can trim some fat as I'm not willing to compromise on my 5G / and 
5G /home scheme (makes it far to easy to back up onto DVD as I never used to exceed 4.2G on either.

Like I said, I've been playing with it for a while on my test laptop, so I don't expect any 
surprises, but I'm very impressed with the way the upgrade went.. very..

I've cc'd this to Dubai-lug.. maybe we'll see some more people try out Ubuntu :)

(Oh, forgot. The upgrade took 2 hrs + time to download 1G of .debs on a 1.2Ghz Pentium-M _slow_ 
machine). Not too shabby. Took me another hour to work the bugs out (but they were caused due to my 
custom hacks and non-ubuntu way of doing some stuff)

Brad
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