8.10 today, 9.04 tomorrow or 9.04 beta today

[imhavoc]

Just throwing this against the wall to see what you other 76ers are thinking.

I ordered a new hard drive for the dearly beloved Daru2 (Darter Ultra 2).

I could install 8.10 64-bit today.

or

I could wait 6 weeks and install 9.04 "tomorrow."

or

I could install 9.04 beta today, and suffer the outrageous slings and arrows of an unfinished distro.

I do use this machine for everything, and I'm running 8.04-32bit right now.

I want suspend and some other features found only in the 64-bit kernels. I'm also having to do some video editing for my job, and the video editors don't like 8.04.

So.... thoughts?

[Lee_Machine]

Well the beta is not out yet, so that is not even an option. I personally would just install 8.10, and use that. Wait some time after jaunty comes out, let S76 release their driver, and then install it.

But I would recomend upgrading to 9.04, if not for just one thing it would be ext4. From what I have used of it so far the over performance is faster.

If you use multiple computers with Ubuntu then try it on a machine that is not used as much. I would even go as far as to install the Beta on the 26th on this machine. See if you even like it.

[thomasaaron]

Just be aware that we won't be supporting Jaunty until it is officially released.

I just created a wrestling demo dvd for my son using Kino in 8.10 64-bit. It worked out really well.

[williumbillium]

I want suspend and some other features found only in the 64-bit kernels.

Bear in mind that suspend doesn't work on the Daru2 with any ubuntu release past gutsy, 64 bit or not.

[imhavoc]

Bear in mind that suspend doesn't work on the Daru2 with any ubuntu release past gutsy, 64 bit or not.

WHAT!?

That's so-o-o-o wrong!

Thomas Aaron!

[thomasaaron]

Unfortunately, it's true. We've spent hundreds of hours trying to fix it -- and still are. There are some other threads that discuss this more in depth.

[flukeairwalker]

When we upgrade to Jaunty, is there anything special we're going to have to do to take advantage of ext4?

[3Miro]

Laptop hardware in general is very specific,so first of all I expect a driver issue. I wouldn't try anything on my laptop until I get a clear sign from system76, besides, right now, I need the laptop to really work without glitches for me, I cannot afford to spend the time and effort to fix anything that might be wrong.

I would put the beta on my desktop (not sys76), but I am very busy at work right now, so I would probably wait until late May before I do anything.

[kperkins]

When we upgrade to Jaunty, is there anything special we're going to have to do to take advantage of ext4?

Yes --do a complete reinstall, and repartitioning.

[Vadi]

Do bear in mind this bug though: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/317781 [Ext4 data loss]

Which does not look like it will be solved anytime soon.