Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 available for download
By Darren Murph 
posted April 24th 2008 8:46AM
posted April 24th 2008 8:46AM
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posted April 24th 2008 8:46AM
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I really gotta jump on linux and give it another go.
There is nothing better than Ubuntu to get started...
Agreed... I think you'll be impressed by the Compiz engine (Advanced Desktop Effects), if you haven't used it before.
They've finally added Wubi to the standard Ubuntu ISO. Wubi makes running Ubuntu for Windows users extremely easy. In fact, Wubi is what got me hooked on Ubuntu back last fall.
If you're thinking of trying out Ubuntu again, then now is defnitely a good time to do it.
Wubi FAQ - http://wubi-installer.org/faq.php
Yeah I'm using Ubuntu right now. Been without m$ for a few weeks. Everything on my laptop works fine--oh and the shell is a lot of fun once you learn how to use it.
I'd personlly give Mandriva a go if Ubuntu had your head going in circles before; much easier for beginners (has a super-easy GUI for ndiswrapper and picked up my graphics drivers/installed compiz and all I had to do was select it from the menu. And Ubuntu wouldn't even load past the GRUB menu)!
Ubuntu's good, but its jumping in a bit at the deep end, I found. Then again, others might have different experiences.
Ubuntu is ok. Doing all of the "basic" stuff like Word processing, web surfing, and simple photo editing, are no problem.
If your needs go beyond that, and you dont have the stomach for command lines, editing source.list files, and getting the runaround from the package manager or hit-or-miss online help, then stick with what you've got. Compiz is fun for a minute, but not enough of a reason to go into this cocky and act like this is going to be a cakewalk.
And yes I do use Linux currently on 3 PCs.
Cool feature, at first I didn't understand the point of Wubi because I thought you still used Grub. Allowing Ubuntu to show up in the Windows Boot Manager is pretty slick. I actually havent tested 8.04 yet even though its been in beta for a while. Gonna give it a try in a VM to test out the new features.
I will be hard installing something called, "Ubuntu Hardy Heron" but i will give it a try. (...who comes up with these names?)
I think with Linux you either gotta embrace the insane command lines and constant internet searching (for solutions to whatever insane problem arises), and occasionally a little it of your own detective work when you encounter problems that nobody else has been able to figure out (at least no obvious solutions from googling), or just not dive into it. Because honestly, sooner or later you'll run into some insane problem or another, and just assuming you can stay in a pretty GUI isn't going to happen.
And I've been using various Linux installs since Mandrake 6 (they started at version 5.1 so 6 is pretty ancient). I actually bought it in a retail box too, lol. Man...6 had some serious issues with how "easy" it was to get X Windows working.
Oddly enough, I think it's less frustrating to just go learn the command lines and files to edit yourself than to run into inexplicable errors in an "Easy to use" gui.
But seriously, unless you're on limited hardware or running a server I don't really think most linux installs are neccessary at all for a home user. Running linux just to feel like you're a hardcore computer nerd is stupid.
I hate myself because I keep reading it 'Hardy Hardon'.
I've been using Ubuntu for a while, and I've been using 804 since the alphas, and it's been improved very much.
I have to say, I really think 804 is a GREAT distro, and certainly worth a look at, even if you just play with the liveCD. Have fun!
Yawn!
... yet it was apparently interesting enough for you to post.
My comment is what made it interesting
@Joseph
It really was.
I'll be installing this on my Eee tonight. Xandros Xanblos
do you know if it will work out of the box? ubuntu 7.10 was a pain to install on the eee without any tweaks. i just hope they did what Mandriva did and made the new release work without any tweaks
It's actually been available for over a day now, it's just they didn't update the download page. If you clicked the link for the RC version, you got the final version.
Looks interesting anyway :D
well aren't you cool!
Yes! I love heron, especially hardy ones, so this is perfect for me.
That pie is disturbing on several levels. But your comments are good. I am so torn.
I had Ubuntu on my laptop for a day or two (I just wanted to see what all the fuss was about). I found I couldn't install most things?
Thats because "most things" like your standard *windows* programs such as Photoshop, iTunes, etc. dont run under linux normally. Hence the reason you can purchase software for macs and pcs, its the same with linux software.
I had the same problem it was because your software sources were probably turned off
Yeah, I wonder if they fixed the GUI wireless configuration. Nothing like having to hand-edit a few /etc/... system files to get WEP and wireless channels, etc up and running
And that powernowd that's trying to change CPU frequencies on CPUs that don't change frequencies - think that's fixed, too?
(like when visiting Engadget - surf, start page load, catanoic crash)
Fun stuff!
Not!
(I use Ubuntu on my "other" machine but continue to be disappointed how NOT ready for prime time it (and other Linux versions) are)
Yea, go into Synaptic Package Manager and enable all of the sources. Ubuntu is one of those evangelist open source software distributions by default, but you can show 3rd party restricted software by simply modifying the sources that show up in the package manager. You can always apt-get programs on your own, but Synaptic makes it easy because you dont have to worry about dependencies. Pulling down SVN code and compiling it yourself is another option too. Read up.
Why was I low ranked for that?
"the latest flavor of Ubuntu is finally ready for mass consumption"
Don't they always say that? What makes this version so special?
I think what they meant is that it's released and ready, no unfinished software and stuff. I released the RC last week and ended up with a couple of problems extra really... anyway it's still a great OS. I'm hoping the next release will have stuff I need for Japanese input/output easier available and that they'll have fixed the rt2500 driver so I won't need to mix with modules.
You go back to Windows land if you like that better; even with a couple of problems with network drivers and input/output of text, I'd choose Ubuntu over Windows and Kubuntu over Ubuntu any day.
If you've ever visited the Ubuntu forums, there's a coffee theme.
at first I thought it said hairy hardon... LOL... jokes aside I really like ubuntu i've used it for about a month along side XP, and i'm looking forward to installing this version within the week
I thought that too :\ Maybe that says something about us?
Hopefully people buy a lot of support contracts to pay for all that bandwidth.
They don't pay for the bandwidth, at least not all of it. I work at the University of Kent, UK, one of the major mirrors for ubuntu (among a lot other things). As far as i know we don't charge for the use of our bandwidth for FOSS.
BTW this is by far and out the busiest day for our servers I've seen since i started. Still no where near maxing out our 40GBit Super Janet connection tho :p
dammit, I just installed 7.10!
The good news is that you can upgrade right from Ubuntu without needing a new CD.
Log into your 7.10 box (not remotely!) and open up a shell, and type "sudo do-release-upgrade". Boom.
If someone knows how to do this through Gnome's GUI, feel free to add here.
I don't really feel like I need to nuke my Ubuntu 7.10 installation yet, I has done everything i wanted to and its finally up2date (lol, Fed joke)
Downloading now. I've been using gutsy gibbon for awhile now and it's nice, but some things didnt work quite right out of the box (VI, of all things). So here's hoping they've fixed that and perhaps made wireless compatability a little more robust.
> ...some things didnt work quite right out of the box (VI, of all things)....
!!!
> ...So here's hoping they've fixed that and perhaps made wireless
> compatability a little more robust.
Amen.
too bad that devs won't fix this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/188226 causing extremely ui unresponsiveness
Check again, looks like they did fix it... 3 hours ago.
haha wow so either MIT pulled themselves off the mirror list or their server crashed because they were there 15 mins ago when i tried to download. they are the closest mirror to me since wpi doesnt offer ubuntu :-\
WPI use to have internal mirrors. Talk to NetOps, they use to love running them for on campus.
haha ya my roommate works at netops. they support fedora/red hat and a few others but no ubuntu as of yet
Contemplating updating my server (that I just put 7.10 on)..
The page on Ubuntu's website has an outdated link for alternative download locations..
http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/
For Torrents (i386):
Desktop: http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent
Server:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-server-i386.iso.torrent
for 64-bit torrents:
Desktop: http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent
Server: http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-server-amd64.iso.torrent
All of the download servers are being overrun with client requests. Use bit-torrent for it's ORIGINAL INTEDNED USE, dowloading linux iso's :)
Am I the only one that's getting tired of these "speaking to you" kind of news posts. Every news post lately tries to reach a new level of witiness and even starts to tell me how I should feel, what I want and to worship Apple. Engadget just quite the crap and get serious mkay?
And I like engadget because they're NOT serious :-)
"Seriously", what's the point on acting like you didn't have a sense of humour?