Ubuntu 8.04 - Experience So Far
For the past 12 months I have been using Ubuntu as my main OS of choice, graduating through the upgrades from Feisty to Gutsy. So when Hardy hit the servers at Canonical, I was naturally eager to try it out.Ubuntu 8.04 has a lot of advantages over its predecessors, but unfortunately, the new kernel version seems to have a few problems too.
Installing Hardy was a little fiddly to begin with. My system is a Samsung X22 laptop with Intel Core2 Duo T7500 2.2Ghz, ATi Radeon HD2400, 2GiB DDR2 RAM, with a Pheonix BIOS.
I put the CD in the drive and booted up the system, loading the live version and encountered the first problem - the screen wouldn’t configure and all I got was a mish mash of vertical lines. OK, start again I thought. This time I booted into the llive version using the F4 option of Safe Graphics Mode. So far so good.
