Bored with Ubuntu 7.10? Move to 8.04 Beta!

Well you know sometimes when you use an OS for as long as I have... One can get bored with it. Maybe it is just my personality but I was just sitting around the old computer the other day and well... I decided to upgrade Ubuntu 7.10 to the new beta release 8.04.

Yes, I know, it is coming out in just over a week but the upgrade was an easy process to begin. Using the old Alt-F2 and typing in update-manager --devel-release I was away.

The process took about 35 minutes to complete. A few packages were deleted and I was given the opportunity to reboot. At that moment, I always hestitate and ask myself "Did I do the right thing?" "I had a perfectly fine working OS" Well I clicked rebbot and once again my OS booted up without any issues.

I have to say that Ubuntu 8.04 beta is a great running OS and worked fine from the first bootup. With an upgrade version of Firefox 3 which took about an hour to get used too, I find it working great and I even like the bit of new eye candy that it presents to a user.

All in all the beta 8.04 works fine with the generic kernel on my Intel DG965OT mother board with 4 gigs of OCZ DDR2 - 800mhz PC6400 RAM. BTW I run 32 bit OS and only see 3.2 gig of RAM as I have not yet got around to compiling my kernel. I did however run the Ubuntu 8.04 Server kernel but my system had issues with this and load averages were running away. I was able to see 4 gigs with the Server Kernel but decided to move back to the generic one.

I look forward to the final release of Ubuntu 8.04 next week.