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Installed Ubuntu Hardy on my laptop

Alan Doyle — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:50:32 +0000

I’ve just finished installing Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) on my Acer 9303WSMi and first impressions are “WOW”, which is what Vista was meant to do but didn’t! I have to agree with K.Mandla it’s so easy. Before I started I had a couple of requirements which I wanted Hardy to meet, mostly getting my hardware to Continue reading →

Ubuntu 8.04 is out

Alan Doyle — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:59:05 +0000

Woohoo. Congrats to everyone at Canonical and the Ubuntu Development Teams. Ubuntu 8.04 is out. I’m currently downloading both the 64-bit desktop and 32-bit server disks so I can install them tonight. Happy days. Update: I’ve successfully upgraded my server from 7.10 to 8.04. Hardy rocks. It was the most painless upgrade I’ve ever done. Continue reading →

Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) out tomorrow.

Alan Doyle — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:00:24 +0000

I have to say I’ve been looking forward to this for a while now. I’m absolutely sick of Windows Vista SP1 on my laptop (an Acer Aspire 9303) (Camaxtli). I’ve already ranted about Vista on many, many, many occasions and as of tomorrow I can kiss goodbye to Windows forever. I plan on running Ubuntu Continue reading →