So the final release of hardy heron has finally been released. I did a clean install on my macbook from the yesterday and it went v smoothly. Infact i started the process from the cd at 14:10 and after just 15 minutes i booted back into my desktop at 14:25, which was pretty sweet, and a vast improvement over Gutsy. Problems Not many problems to report really, and far fewer problems over Gutsy and Hardy RC1. The one big thing seems to be the sound, no sound through the headphone jack is fixed by unmuting surround in the volume preferences. One more sound problem i am having is that Firefox occasionally has no sound, for now i am just logging out and in again which seems to fix the problem, i am not sure as to whether this problem is in Firefox beta 3, or in hardy heron..

Ubuntu Hardy Heron Tue, 29th Apr 2008

So the final release of hardy heron has finally been released. I did a clean install on my macbook from the yesterday and it went v smoothly. Infact i started the process from the cd at 14:10 and after just 15 minutes i booted back into my desktop at 14:25, which was pretty sweet, and a vast improvement over Gutsy.

Problems

Not many problems to report really, and far fewer problems over Gutsy and Hardy RC1. The one big thing seems to be the sound, no sound through the headphone jack is fixed by unmuting surround in the volume preferences. One more sound problem i am having is that Firefox occasionally has no sound, for now i am just logging out and in again which seems to fix the problem, i am not sure as to whether this problem is in Firefox beta 3, or in hardy heron..

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Just upgraded my macbook from Gutsy Gibbon to Hardy Heron RC1. The process was very neat, I just followed these instructions, the upgrade took about 1hr, and was not completely unmanned (i had to confirm a few things), but near enough. Problems Once finished my system didnt have any sound, but after a short google search i found the solution to the problem is to open your volume control, go to preferences, and unmute the surround sound. Also a couple of plugins dont work in firefox 3, most importantly for me is the del.icio.us bookmark plugin, but im sure that will be updated soon. First impressions Everything else seems to be working as well, and in most cases better than Gutsy. The new Gnome is snappier and a tiny bit more polished, nice and subtle changes to the GUI (nothing too flashy, unless you want it that way). Ive turned on the new uncomplicated firewall which is a nice frontend CLI to iptables. Thats it for now, ill probably write a few posts about pulseAudio and the new VNC client when ive had a play with them

Hardy Heron First impressions Sat, 19th Apr 2008

Just upgraded my macbook from Gutsy Gibbon to Hardy Heron RC1. The process was very neat, I just followed these instructions, the upgrade took about 1hr, and was not completely unmanned (i had to confirm a few things), but near enough.

Problems

  • Once finished my system didnt have any sound, but after a short google search i found the solution to the problem is to open your volume control, go to preferences, and unmute the surround sound.
  • Also a couple of plugins dont work in firefox 3, most importantly for me is the del.icio.us bookmark plugin, but im sure that will be updated soon.

First impressions

Everything else seems to be working as well, and in most cases better than Gutsy. The new Gnome is snappier and a tiny bit more polished, nice and subtle changes to the GUI (nothing too flashy, unless you want it that way). Ive turned on the new uncomplicated firewall which is a nice frontend CLI to iptables.

Thats it for now, ill probably write a few posts about pulseAudio and the new VNC client when ive had a play with them

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