Ubuntu Hardy Heron – Another day another upgrade
The latest release of Ubuntu Linux was released today. They like to have unusual product names so this one is called Hardy Heron. The latest release is a long term support (LTS) release which means that Ubuntu will provide patches and updates for three years on the desktop version and five for the server version.
My primary e-mail server and (mail gateway for my Exchange server) was running the last LTS version which was 6.06 (Dapper Drake) so I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade it today. I was going to wait until next week to upgrade as the mirrors were almost certainly going to be close to their maximum loads today but I found myself with some free time and upgraded it over the net.
A couple of hours later and all is peachy. I only had one problem that caught me out and that was errors when the updater was trying to upgrade the Courier IMAP server. A bit of digging about on the net got me sorted and the upgrade completed.
While on the subject of upgrades I’m planning to upgrade my main webserver over the weekend. Currently it’s running Fedora 7 but I’m leaning towards installing CentOS on it instead. Of course by the weekend I could be after changing my mind once more.
Ahh. The freedom of choice 
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ahh I didn’t even realise it was released today and I downloaded xubuntu 8.04 last night because I was stuck for a live cd. got 300k/s but some other mirror was kind of slow alright this ubuntu thing has almost as much hype as OS X now.
you think there would be queues if they were handing out free discs in the shop?
You wouldn’t have to queue outside a shop because they will post you the CDs for free