wmcbrine
Touched by His Noodly Appendage
join:2002-12-30
Laurel, MD
| reply to antiserious
Re: How do you like Hardy?
This was my smoothest Ubuntu upgrade yet -- which isn't saying much -- but it wasn't bad. It seemed to work fine until the end, when it complained that it couldn't upgrade gcc-3.4-doc, of all worthless things. Then it wouldn't let me check for updates, saying that it couldn't find the hardy-backports repository. I resolved that by removing /etc/apt/sources.list.d -- no problems since then.
So far, I haven't noticed huge changes. The Gnome Terminal font looks different.
Firefox 3 is the big one. I like it, except for one thing: I used to take advantage of the fact that bookmarks were stored in a flat HTML file by loading that file into the browser -- much more convenient to use than the pull-down menu, when you have as many bookmarks as I have. Now, the bookmarks are apparently kept in a database, the flat file seems not to be updated anymore, and I haven't found a way to get back the old functionality. Maybe via an extension... maybe I'll have to write it...
All my extensions continued to work, but I had to reinstall Flash and Java. Which was just as well, because now they'll be updated by Ubuntu itself, unlike before.
I think FF 3 was the right way to go, when you consider that this version of the distro will be current well into the FF 3 era. If they'd loaded 2, they'd be stuck with it (per Ubuntu policy) until 8.10... even longer for the LTS users. And it seems stable for me.
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