> Has anyone noticed any nontrivial improvements in 8.04 over 7.10?
First of all, 8.04 will be supported significantly longer than 7.10. If
you want to be a slow updater, you should stick to LTS releases. This
means migrating to an LTS release as soon as you can safely do it and
sitting there until the next LTS release. (They occur every 2 years, so
it is a shorter wait than most distributions, even then.)
This is why I've been using 6.06 LTS on my desktop at work. I need it to
work, and can't afford problems with upgrade issues.
If you stick to 7.10, you'll be stuck when 8.10 is released. You will
*need* to perform a full from-scratch update. Ubuntu only offers upgrades
from the immediately previous release, except for LTS releases which also
have clean upgrades from the previous LTS release.
There are some interesting tools now available. Some new games. Newer
versions of existing things. I'm looking forward to trying out Falcon, a
Debian package repository tool. I've mentioned that etckeeper is really
great. It uses Xorg 7.3, which does add some new things.
What is a trivial improvement? That is all relative. What is important
to you? Fancy GUI crap? There's more better 3D stuff in Hardy. Games?
There's some new games in Hardy. Tools? There are some interesting new
tools. Web browsing? Firefox 3 does it better -- supposed to be faster,
too.
Do you consider all prepacked binaries to be "trivial improvements" as
you're perfectly content to build and install anything from scratch?
(Personally, I'm competent to build and install things from scratch,
I just consider it a waste of time, so I'm not content doing it.) If
this is your opinion, then except for the support, they are all trivial
improvements.
Cheers,
Steven Black
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