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Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Hardy Heron Notes

A short list of random stuff I have noticed since upgrading to Hardy Heron Alpha 6:

  1. Glipper is now a GNOME only application. Parcellite is a great replacement for Glipper.
  2. Epiphany is no longer dependent on Firefox, w00t!
  3. gnome-volume-manager has lost some features/functionality/usefulness, apparently this is because Nautilus now has more features/functionality/usefulness — probably not noticeable if you are running GNOME and Nautilus, very noticeable if you are not running GNOME and Nautilus. GNOME and Nautilus developers probably don't give a damn.
  4. It is not possible to perform a distribution upgrade using the GUI update-manager if you have not got one of the official desktop packages installed; ubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, gobuntu-desktop etc.
  5. It is possible to perform a distribution upgrade by manually editing /etc/apt/sources.list, replacing all occurrences of "gutsy" with "hardy" and then issuing an apt-get dist-upgrade command.
  6. Breakages can happen :)
  7. It feels good to be running the latest development release of Ubuntu, I could even describe it as a fun activity.
  8. Some robots are scary, while others are not.
  9. Breakages can happen again. Note to self, changing from generic to i386 kernel breaks kermit. Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to fix.
  10. Hardy Heron is shaping up to be a great release!

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3 Responses to “Hardy Heron Notes”

  1. Michael wrote, Thursday, March 20th, 2008

    Hi,

    just a small note, it is possible to upgrade without ubuntu-desktop (or a similar meta-package). Update-manager will guess which one you most likely need then and install it for you in this case [1] so that you get all the new features :)

    Cheers, Michael

    [1] If that didn't work for you, then I would be happy to hear about this, its most likely a bug.

  2. Philip wrote, Thursday, March 20th, 2008

    @Michael: Thank you for the comment :) FWIW, it did not work for me, although I would like to test it again to confirm. Also, I am not sure that I would like the update-manager to "guess" which desktop package I need when my system does not have/need/want one. Would it not be possible to allow the distribution upgrade, using update-manager, without the need for one of these meta packages?

  3. Juergen wrote, Friday, March 21st, 2008

    Hello Philip,

    Is it to much, to ask you to keep me posted about the outcome of your upgrade tests? I would like to upgrade to Hardy Heron too, as soon as it is released officially.

    Thanks and Greetings Juergen

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