Poll: Ubuntu 8.04 users, are you upgraing to 8.10?

I'm upgrading now , just hope wi-fi will still work, not bothered about anything else.
EMZ=P

 

I'm only going to install it from a curiosity standpoint. I love Ubuntu except for the boot-time. Arch beats it hands down.

 

I decided I'm not installing the BETA- after reading all the bugs. I'm scared that my wi-fi won't work xD.
EMZ=P

 

There's gotta be other reasons to use arch....I'm sure you could even get the boot time down using a different GUI or something along those lines. I've actually been thinking about trying Arch. What should I expect?

 

A blank screen with a command line interface that is severely lacking.
lol

 

awesome. Installing over windows now!

 

I will wait for the next LTS, which is 9.04.

 

9.04 sounds kinda soon to be an LTS..

Anyway, where's the 'I don't run Ubuntu' option?

 

You're banned from the thread xD, hence the, 'Ubuntu 8.04 users'- it's asking the question directly at those people.
SO BUGGER OFF! XD. Jk, lol. I'd add one on(though, it'd be rather pointless, since it's not a poll to find out about people's OSes, it's to see if people will upgrade), but I can't edit the polls. If a moderator is reading this and knows how too, feel free, even though, as stated before, it's rather irrelevant and pointless.
EMZ=]

 

I went to look for where I found 9.04 to be the next LTS and now find that there are also postings about 10.04 being the next LTS. So, dunno.

 

Gentoo beats Arch's boot time hands down

 

Pacman beats Emerge's install/update time hands down

Yeah, that sounds a little more like it, was pretty sure it wasn't 9.04.. heard somewhere they were doing LTS releases every 2 years.

 

I downgraded to 7.10 from 8.04. Found my stuff worked much better under 7.10.

 

I can't get my wifi to work on 8.04, I'm hoping 8.10 will fix the problem.

 

what is your wireless card

 

I got a D-Link DWL-G650 to work by using non-Open Source drivers.

 

I had a d-link card that worked out of the box with 7.04 >_> that was awhile ago.

 

El cheapo piece of junk broadcom...it barely works in xp, so not really a surprise that it's a pain to get working in ubuntu.

 

Fully plan on...once I remember what my Ubuntu password is. -_-

 

haha, nice. Tried ndiswrapper?

 

The previous LTS version was Hoary Hedgehog right? They said 3 year support for those so the next one should be 11.xx ...

 

3 years support, but two years between new versions.

 

tried it, hate it.

 

I installed 8.04 on my dv5z the first day I got it. But I had to use the unreleased ath9k driver to get wifi working. I switched to the 8.10alpha a couple days after, when I saw they decided to adopt the 2.6.27 kernel (which has the released ath9k driver).

 

People who don't like it or don't need it say: I just want an OS with good support. Sometimes, an OS that you're familiar with and can just start up/shutdown is good enough. Everything, from Ubuntu's perspective, is out of the box and simple. I have to agree with that, too, my wireless, after 6months, is still WIP (mind you, that's totally my problem of not knowing how) and many things have to be tweaked. Much time is used up. Also, almost all the info is kept in /etc/rc.conf, which means if that's screwed, everything is screwed

Well, supporters will say: It's modular and you can configure it till your knees fall off. And that it's rolling release means you can just install it once, then just keep upgrading it without needing to reinstall the OS (like no more 6.10 to 7.04 to 7.10 to 8.04 to 8.10 installs). Even I find that great. You can install what you want, ignore what you don't want, so you don't have to load unwanted locales and etc. Pacman is very comprehensive as well.

If you're familiar with Linux, Arch seems to be a good step forward from Ubuntu as you become in total control of your computer. However, too much configuration may put off some simple users just wanting a stable OS. The installation itself can take up to 2hours of pure configuring.

Wait till Blackbird sees this. He'll start preaching about Arch again. hahaha