Last month I upgraded my notebook from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 (”Hardy Heron”). Since then, whenever I tried tried to install the up to 133 updates that had become available, the Update Manager would hang indefinitely instead of prompting me for the user password.
If you’re in the same situation, the following tips might help you. […]
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Update Manager hangs in Ubuntu 8.04 (and how to fix it)
May 17th, 2008 · 17 Comments
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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS released
April 25th, 2008 · No Comments
The latest version of Ubuntu, the most popular desktop version of Linux on the market, was released on Thursday, 24 April 2008.
New versions are released every six months and labelled after the release year and month, therefore the latest will be known as 8.04, replacing 7.10. The “LTS” suffix stands for “Long Term Support”, […]
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First impressions of Vista and Ubuntu
March 10th, 2008 · 9 Comments
Last week I was on a business trip to the USA and decided it was finally time for me to buy a new notebook computer. Here in Japan it’s difficult to get machines with US keyboards.
My previous one was a 650 MHz Pentium III whose RAM was maxed out at 512 MB while my […]