[CoLoCo] is hardy fairly stable or not

[Manfred Meiser]

-- Neal McBurnett <neal at bcn.boulder.co.us> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 11:41:55AM -0700, Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> I am going to be doing a clean install soon and was wondering if it's time to
> give hardy a try. This is on my main desktop so I would like it to be fairly
> reliable. I can survive breakage. I have at least 2 installs at all times and
> can always boot the other - I guess I'm dual booting but both are Ubuntu :). I
> would just like to minimize problems as I've already done a lifetime's worth of
> Ubuntu installs already. Has anyone installed hardy and what are your
> impressions?

It is always risky to run alpha software on your live data files.
Case in point: hardy has Firefox 3.0.  If you run it with your home
directory set to your normal live home directory, with a .mozilla
subdirectory, I think it will convert from firefox 2 to firefox 3.  If
it works - great.  If not, it is a pain to back out from backup....

So I certainly advise caution, running on test data for a while, lots
of backups, etc.

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/

I'm running Hardy since Alpha 2 came out without any negative side effects. No data loss, all common applications like office and firefox are working fine.

Like Andrew mentioned booting seems to be faster and when popped in while windows is running you get the option to install "Open Office" or "Firefox" into Windows. This is a good(3 step)feature to give hard core Window users an option to install free software without installing a new operating system. The next steps would be the Ubuntu live CD and then Ubuntu install option.

I don't remember that Wubi install was an option but that may have changed meanwhile. Firefox was upgraded in Alpha 5 to Firefox3 without problems. The only problem I encountered is that "Supertux" isn't running right, daahh ;), what is really essential for my 4-year old little guy.

So Jim, if you wanna go for it you don't have to worry about too much. Maybe just wait for the Beta release in a week or two. Of course a data backup is a very good idea but I know you'll do that anyway. BTW, my choice of data backup is rsync from the command line whenever I feel it's necessary, it's quick and easy.  If that's too much work use the cron option.

Good luck and cheers, Manfred
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