No interest or posts to the PLUG list about Hardy? Just wanted to mention I was on Gutsy 32-bit on my old P4 (been running Ubuntu since Feisty) and recently installed 64-bit Hardy since Beta on my new Q6600 based desktop.
The 7.10 desktop LiveCD had issues booting and progressing far but Hardy worked very well. Sound, Networking, nVidia graphics, multimedia, DVD writer all working - tried KVM/virt-manager and also installed VirtualBox - those work well too - VirtualBox doesn't have 64-bit guests - KVM is fast. Currently downloading VMWare Server 2 Beta 2. Detected and printouts on my HP OfficeJet 5610 printer were fine. Hardy final comes with FireFox 3 Beta 5 which is stable enough on the few sites I visit. Tried WINE for the first time - got 7-Zip and FireFox to work but MS Virtual PC did not :-) Don't have stuff like digicam, webcam etc to try - haven't yet tried connecting my 3-yr old Moto RAZR. The Ubuntu forums seem to indicate there are a good number of people facing problems with Hardy and will stick to previous versions or switch distros or even OSes. Stuff like PulseAudio being new and a bit unstable which the developers know but still included for this LTS release... But overall looks like a good release - most likely will upgrade some office developer PCs from Feisty to Hardy soon... It's funny - installing WinXP took about 45 min while Hardy installation took under 15 min (not counting the post-installation updates and configuration) - this when XP is just the OS and Hardy includes most popular apps like OpenOffice, GIMP etc all on a single CD :-) -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.