> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 08:27:22AM -0400, Dabrowski, Andrew J wrote:
> > 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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