[ale] Final Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha Release

[Dan Lambert]

I've not had any post-upgrade dependency issues, but others may have a
different experience. I have had to run a particular update twice to
make sure that everything was updated, but that has only happened to me
once.

Dan

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 22:36 -0500, Jon Reagan wrote:
> 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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