[ale] Final Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha Release

Jon Reagan jreagan1990 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 22:36:19 EST 2008


You can perform a full upgrade now, by using sudo upgrade-manager -d or
something like that.  Personally, I believe the safest option would be to do
a fresh install, so you avoid any post-upgrade dependency issues.

Jon

2008/3/6 Josh Wells <joshwells at yahoo.com>:

> Is this ready yet for upgrade from a Gutsy install or would it still
> require a fresh install?
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com>
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2008 9:12:32 PM
> Subject: [ale] Final Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha Release
>
> The 6th alpha release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, the "Hardy Heron", is out.
> They've passed DebianImportFreeze, FeatureFreeze, and
> UserInterfaceFreeze. There's not much time left for bug fixing, so if
> you'll be using this version you should give it a test drive now and
> report any problems at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu
>
> >From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseSchedule:
> March 13th BetaFreeze
> March 20th BetaRelease, DocumentationStringFreeze
> April 10th KernelFreeze
> April 17th ReleaseCandidate
> April 24th FinalRelease
>
> Lots of interesting things are being added in this release for the
> enterprise (ActiveDirectory integration, virtualization with
> virt-manager and KVM, iSCSI support) and the average user (the latest
> GNOME, Firefox 3, a GUI for dynamically configuring multiple displays)
> and the potential user (reboot from cd without changing the BIOS boot
> order, the ability to install to a file inside a ntfs partition); see
> the release notes at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyHeron/Alpha6
>
> You can download the iso from
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/alpha-6/
>
> -Brian
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