Ubuntu 8.04 is out

http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.04/

by mcxx • 18 years ago

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ejs4• 18 years ago

Been running the beta for a month or so and have to say I have not had many problems. For the most part everything has been enjoyable.

Running on a laptop with external monitor (as dual monitor). No major problems with the graphics or wifi or anything else.

DanielH• 18 years ago

Dito! ;)

dwwatk01• 18 years ago

Good to hear! The one issue I had with 7.10, requiring some xorg tweaks, was getting that same monitor setup working correctly. Here's to a smooth setup when I get home tonight :).

ejs4• 18 years ago

yea I was happy with how well it worked out. My setup is using an nVidia card in twinview.

I used EnvyNG to get the right drivers and it worked like a charm, I did have problems trying to install the driver directly.

Good luck!

spydez• 18 years ago

Do you disconnect/reconnect your laptop to the external monitor much? I.e., does it switch nicely between single and dual monitor use?

I looked into doing that for my Ubuntu 7.10 laptop, since I have an extra monitor lying around, but it goes with me on trips so it must be able to do single monitor mode too.

All I could find on the web, though, said such usage was flaky at best and downright hard to setup (for 7.10).

I'd be interested to see if they improved that for 8.04

ejs4• 18 years ago

ya know i haven't much since running hardy. The last time I did I didnt have any problems (i think i restarted gnome though)... The only problem I had was that the panel I keep on the second monitor moved to being on top of the other one... So I ended up with 2 panels, stacked, showing the same information.

Ill give it a try a few times tonight and let you know how things go

wanorris2• 18 years ago

I use a second monitor at work and only my onboard screen at home. After fiddling around with settings for a while, I got it to work, but I also shut down the system when I go to and from work (I expect restarting X would also work).

The main downside of this setup (other than the rebooting thing) is that it makes it impractical to unplug my laptop and move around when I feel like it.

I'm also interested in seeing what happens under Hardy.

carpo• 18 years ago

I use 7.10 with an external monitor and laptop. The standard display tools did not work for me, as they kept stuffing up the resolutions of each monitor, so the best solution I found was to have 2 xorg.conf files, one for 2 monitors and one for just the laptop. I run a script to swap them around when I need to. Not the best solution ... but it works for me. Took me about 4 hours or so to setup, as I've not used linux before.

ken• 18 years ago

http://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/7.3

The latest RandR added support for that, which appears to have gone in about a month before Ubuntu 7.10. I haven't tried it, but it's a safe bet it's better now. Whether it's good enough for your setup, I can't say.

azsromej• 18 years ago

I've been running the beta for over a month now and look forward to the final upgrade. I did had one issue with the -12 through -15 kernels which rendered my Intel sound card unusable. A bulk update 2 weeks ago fixed that.

daleharvey• 18 years ago

Ive been running the beta for a while, its been really nice, my compiz hasnt worked until this release, and it also fixed my printer etc etc.

It also plays a preview of mp3s you mouseover in the filebrowser, not a big feature, but I liked it

paulgb• 18 years ago

> It also plays a preview of mp3s you mouseover in the filebrowser, not a big feature, but I liked it

Yikes, I could see that startling the heck out of me if I left my speakers on full volume.

bct• 18 years ago

> It also plays a preview of mp3s you mouseover in the filebrowser, not a big feature, but I liked it

I don't think that's new to HH, my girlfriend's GG does that.

Prrometheus2• 18 years ago

I just finished getting all the drivers up and working on a 7.1 install. I'm kind of scared of starting all over again with wifi, video, sound, etc. I like 7.1, don't know if the upgrade is worth it.

davidw• 18 years ago

I've generally had very good upgrade experiences with Debian and Debian based distributions.

Readmore• 18 years ago

I'm running 7.10, what's the best way to upgrade without losing any info?

falsestprophet• 18 years ago

>>do-release-upgrade

manvsmachine• 18 years ago

It might be best to wait a day or so if you're not installing from a disc, as their servers usually get hammered during the first 24 hours or so.

AndyKelley• 18 years ago

Sorry, I don't play pokemon

sprice• 18 years ago

One can only drop this joke once or twice a year and it gets downvoted??

whacked_new2• 18 years ago

This is a joke? Can someone explain it and why is it so offensive?

kirubakaran• 18 years ago

http://xkcd.com/178/

arthurk• 18 years ago

Does anyone have a list of all the applications+versions included like which X.org, Gnome, Kernel etc. are used?

krschultz• 18 years ago

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntu

Looks like the kernel is 2.6.25. I'm going to upgrade one of my machines later today and see how it goes. I'm more interested in the Kubuntu + KDE4.0 even if it is unstable. Looks like the Ubuntu stuff is mainly tweaks except a few changes in default programs (Brasero & Transmission by default) and Firefox 3.0 beta + newer Xorg

neilc• 18 years ago

The kernel is actually 2.6.24.

Prrometheus2• 18 years ago

What new features are in this version?

jamesbritt2• 18 years ago

I tried out the beta of Kubuntu; I found KDE 4 painful.

I may give Xbunutu a whirl, or see about swapping out KDE 4 for KDE 3.something.

jrsims• 18 years ago

I love Xubuntu. Surprised there isn't more buzz about it.

petercooper• 18 years ago

Seconded. Xfce provides the best of both worlds, although I tend to stick to the normal one for most things. It's quicker and lighter than Gnome, while being clean and simple, and doesn't look like an odd attempt at "Windows XP 2" like KDE.

dfranke• 18 years ago

Yeah, I tried KDE4 and quickly reverted it. Support seems very preliminary. KDE3 seems solid, though.

jamesbritt2• 18 years ago

A follow up: Turns out that the final release comes in two flavors. The default Kubuntu 8.04 has KDE3; there is also a KDE "remix" version with KDE4.

I've had an annoying time this weekend doing the standard upgrade (I suggest NOT upgrading via the internet using a running system if you can avoid it; my upgrade hung trying to stop a service, and it went downhill from there)

But hibernate and suspend work now. :)

pkrumins• 18 years ago

Did you already pre-order your free copy of Ubuntu 8.04?

http://shipit.ubuntu.com

zkinion• 18 years ago

I might finally make the switch and use it as a desktop. My main concern is that wpa support still might suck for linux.

I'll wait a little bit until I hear more good reviews.

SwellJoe3• 18 years ago

It's worth noting that this is the first LTS release since 6.06, and thus the first release of Ubuntu in a few years that is sane to run on servers. The LTS server releases are supported for five years, as opposed to 18 months for non-LTS releases. A five year support lifecycle is awesome (and means that LTS Ubuntu releases are comparable to RHEL/CentOS and Debian for server usage).

cstejerean3• 18 years ago

I gave up on running LTS on my servers. After a while it becomes painful to manage, especially if you need to install packages that require newer version of core libraries. It depends on what you're building, but I'm perfectly fine with upgrading my servers at least once a year.

SwellJoe3• 18 years ago

You're not running enough servers or enough services on those servers, if you don't mind upgrading every year. Honestly, I prefer Debian with the volatile repository to address that problem. I find CentOS pretty good, as well--grabbing a Fedora SRPM or two and rebuilding is usually an easy way to get the bleeding edge version of something without much pain.

rms• 18 years ago

I'm most looking forward to Pulse Audio, I end up doing a lot of switching of sound cards that's really annoying with Alsa.

jdavid2• 18 years ago

it broke my nvidia drivers.

ijkl2• 18 years ago

I'm guessing you did a full-upgrade. Have you tried a fresh install from scratch?

jdavid2• 18 years ago

not yet, just a linux newbie learning the ropes. i know with windows, upgrades break everything too, so i am not pissed, i was just trying to see if linux was better in that regard. and... i guess it is not.

i was also hoping to skip running through all of the customizations that i set up again, but i guess that is the best way to learn linux. either that, or to fix the install i have.

ijkl2• 18 years ago

Why does Ubuntu provide a server edition in addition to their desktop edition? It would seem a natural fit to leave servers to Debian and focus their own efforts on delivering the best desktop experience possible.

rcoder• 18 years ago

I agree with this in theory, but there's one big advantage to running the same distro on both workstation and server: versioning and compatibility issues at deployment time more or less disappear.

I run Ubuntu on my development workstation, and deploy to Debian servers. While the environments are almost identical, I've wasted far too many hours tracking down stupid bugs in shared libraries that only occur one one distro or the other.

Ubuntu 8.04 is out

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