Ubuntu Hardy Heron to be the hotness

[Sushubh]

tried that. even tried downloading the latest update-manager from the ubuntu package website. that also did not work...

 

[vishalrao]

try adding all the "sources" and also changing your default sources mirror?

 

[Sushubh]

all the sources are of course added and i am using the ubuntu us servers that are default

 

[vishalrao]

just booted it on VMware:i see the new wallpaper and it sucks firefox is 2.0.0.10 not v3 beta!i see the new torrent and cd burning appsdont see any firewall config appi see "seahorse" which is neatthere is an "authentication" app which may be for policykit, i was hoping they would include a gui app to configure ldap/windows/kerberos/NIS etc authentication so that hardy is easy to setup in a windows/linux mixed office environment...didnt bother to open up GIMP or openoffice to check their versions coz things were moving slow, but surely they will have the latest 2.x versions for them...edit: oh, forgot to mention, i didnt even notice the KVM virt-manager stuff, maybe its only for the server version...

 

[vishalrao]

Aww so sad, no new theme for Hardy: New Theme for Ubuntu 8.04 Deferred | Tombuntu

Im also worried that hardy being an "LTS" may not be stable because so many new things are being plugged in under the hood... like pulseaudio, policykit, GVFS/GIO/Dbus blah blah...

this is Fedora 9's chance to gain some "marketshare"

 

[kindofblue]

and what about KDE4.. everyone seems mum about it and to think I kept from upgrading to Fedora 8 because of it...

 

[prakash_mvpa]

^wait for kde4.1 release.as of now kde4 is not so stable

 

[vishalrao]

right, the KDE people did a sneaky thing by nameing an unstable version as 4.0... its really like 3.9...and when 4.1 comes out i expect that too to be unstable.. which means openSUSE 11 will be a disaster like 10.2 was... will need to wait for 11.1 or even 11.2 (thats a 1 year delay!) before i will check it out...even the next release of kubuntu is declared as non-LTS because of KDE4...So looks like Linux land will be unstable until the end of this year only Fedora 9 (GNOME version) might get this chance to gain popularity due its stability... everything is topsy-turvy now...

 

[kindofblue]

To answer my own question, Releases/9/Alpha/ReleaseNotes - Fedora Project Wiki

KDE4 will feature in fedora 9.

 

[vishalrao]

Also see Releases/9/FeatureList - Fedora Project Wiki

I have a sneaky feeling Fedora 9 will rock, while Ubuntu and openSUSE will suck in the next releases... lets see how they turn out