Upgraded my HP Compaq 6510b laptop from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 today. Hmmm, I still find it odd that HP bought out Compaq... Anyways, so far I’m a bit annoyed that I was upgrade from Firefox 2.x to 3.x which is still in Beta, yet Eclipse 3.3.x still isn’t available from Debian package system.
Next up, during the install process, the upgrade failed at the end, was unable to back out it’s changes, nor did it properly launch it’s back out change system that it claimed it was going too. Thankfully this isn’t my primary desktop (dual boots to Vista, where I do most of my work) so I wasn’t worry that the entire install was botched, but upon reboot, I haven’t come across anything terribly out of order. Although I’m sure something is an inconsistent state, which I’m sure will bite me in the ass in several months.
Other then that, I haven’t noticed any drastic changes. The network management features for roaming environments still pales in comparison to Vista and is still very much over-zealous on connecting to arbitrary open networks.
SMB networks are still somewhat clunky to navigate, with the occasional freeze of the system to access lagged systems. (Something Windows doesn’t handle well either)
I haven’t given my bluetooth Logitech keyboard a work out, but I haven’t seen any notes that indicate the bluetooth stack is improved.
Overall, I’m not impressed or disappointed (having no expectations). Definitely make a data backup of important documents as with any system upgrade then take the plunge. (Like most people do that, I didn’t…) Next I’ll be upgrading my Ubuntu test server install, and if that goes smoothly, the server that VMware image is hosted on.