Hardy Heron Release
So, the day we podcast, mind you this is a day mostly set in stone (unless either Peter or I have something better to do, ahem) and the day the “most significant” Ubuntu release ever falls on the same day! Coincidence? Perhaps - I on the other hand prefer to think that the “most significant” Ubuntu related “things” are happening because some cosmic alignment of epic proportions is taking place. Hey folks, this is too good to make up so I’m going with it. Now on to the podcast, we experienced a little “teknical” difficulty as Peter’s connection dropped and the bandwidth allocation seemed to lower suddenly at the same time. This doesn’t make for easy listening or editting for that matter. But, I believe everything turned out ok so I won’t harp about it any more. After all, it’s very rare to have a cosmic alignment and have everything go perfectly. We also tried to do live streaming through Talkshoe.com and I think we might have a lot of the kinks worked out and production should get easier with every passing episode. More on that later. Before I go any further I would like to officially announce the grand unveiling of the new Fresh Ubuntu Podcast Logo! Yet another cosmic convergence! It was designed using the most excellent open source vector graphics program called Inkscape, which makes life so much more easier since th latest release came out. Of course, as we mentioned in the podcast this is a rolling logo in that it could change as distributions are released, so look forward to that. So here is a picture of it:
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April 25th, 2008 at 12:03 am
congratulations for release !
have fun
April 25th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Rocking New Logos. This says “t-shirt for geeks” all over it.
April 27th, 2008 at 1:47 am
Good podcast, well done.
I only tried the LiveCD. The only issue I have is that some webpages don’t display correctly with the Firefox3b5. Anyway, I will still use 6.10 until I make time to do a backup mainly of email (evolution) then a clean install of 8.04. Looking forward to it.
Cheers !
April 28th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Great podcast as always.I love the new logo as well. +1 on the tshirt comment! I’d buy one with the new logo.
Keep up the great work guys!
May 1st, 2008 at 6:51 am
I upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04 on my Toshiba Laptop and all went well until I tried to use wireless encryption. None of the options in 8.04 match what my Netgear router supports (which was not the case in 7.10). The only way I was able to get wireless working was unencrypted - Not Good.
Also Adobe AIR for Linux was working fine in 7.10, but in 8.04 there is no transparency, so AIR transparent areas are black making the apps look odd (some are even unuseable because the transparent area is much bigger than the actual app).
Steve
May 1st, 2008 at 7:26 am
About my Heron update: I made the mistake of upgrading using update-manager. As a general rule, I do a clean OS update on major revision releases (Mac or Win) so my open-source optimism got the better of my decision-making process. The upgrade process “lost” my home directory and, well, all got hosed. A power user would have fixed it and moved on, but I went to default: i.e., clean install. That said, my home directory was intact and I was able to restore it with my clean install. I love keeping my home on its own partition — why don’t you?
So far, my computer feels more responsive. I’m using the 8.04 amd64 OS. My sound subsystem works “better” than before (they switched from alsa to — what is it?) The Broadcom support (or lack of vendor support, more accurately) is a definite snafu, the online recipes at the ubuntuforums failed my getting ndiswrapper working, so I’m using the bcm fw-cutter + network-manager for wireless. I definitely prefer ndiswrapper + wicd but that may correct itself shortly. Compiz runs much better as does sleep. I tried switching to evolution on the upgrade. I was ready to get used to evolution’s hiccups, when it crashed while trying to retrieve email. I’ve switched back to swiftdove, using their 7.10 release for amd64 and it’s working just fine. Sure I could compile it myself — puh-LEAZE!
Great podcast as always. Hey Peter — how’s the dynaball coming along? IT Pros need to know. And, when can we have an open-source workout routine hosted by Harlem? Now that would be a unique market product. The F-U Workout with Harlem show? If you make it strenuous enough, your audience can pepper their exhales with “F-U!”