[ale] Final Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha Release

[Dan Lambert]

For a production machine, I'd wait until it gets closer to final
release. I have a machine that I can safely test these Alpha releases on
because it's a "spare".

I'm running Gutsy on all of the machines that I normally use. I'll
probably upgrade the one that I use for less critical stuff once we get
to Beta stage, but not before. I won't move my personal or critical
machines over until after final release, and I've had a chance to work
with the final on one of these machines until I'm happy that it's
stable.

>From the Ubuntu Wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyHeron/Alpha6),
regarding upgrading to Hardy from Gutsy, "To upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10,
run "update-manager -d" using the update-manager package from Gutsy."

Dan

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 19:21 -0800, Josh Wells wrote:
> 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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