[ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 8.04

[Tony Travis]

Stephen O'Neill wrote:
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> Seriously you lot - will you stop upgrading so I can have a go? :P
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> Had a go last night but gave up as various things kept timing out and
> now I apparently have 5 days 18 hours and 13 minutes remaining. I may
> just be a little more patient and wait a few days.
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> How's it gone for those of you who got in there first - any hitches,
> unsung amazing new features etc?

Hello, Stephen.

Upgraded my laptop from 7.10 to 8.04 OK, except for 100% CPU problem 
with "evolution-data-server", which I fixed after a bit of Googling by 
disabling:

System/Preference/Sessions/Startup Programs/Evolution Alarm Notifier

I had also disabled 'Tracker' under 7.10 because it is a resource hog!

> The new kernel advertises that it will support my wireless card without
> ndiswrapper so fingers crossed for that.

Automatically installed fwcutter + the Broadcom firmware on my laptop. 
Noty test ed that it works yet, though =- Hmm...

Crashed and burned trying to upgrade one of our 6.06.1 LTS servers 
because the repo's were too busy by then ;-)

	Tony.
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