Are you Adopting Feisty as soon as it is released?

[bfledderjohn]

How many of you are going to install Feisty as soon as the the stable version hits? This is the place to let everyone know. If there are specific reasons why you will or won't adopt it, let's talk about it!

[BrianK]

Assuming it has a different kernel, I'll upgrade to solve the NFS bug that seems to be plaguing the 2.6.17-11-generic kernel in 6.10. If that kernel bug weren't around or if a new kernel becomes available, I won't upgrade. Upgrading every few months is bothersome when you have 100 or so computers to admin.

[tc10b]

I will be upgrading, mainly because I am hoping it will give me my wireless internet back, which I lost and have been unable to get back since updating Edgy.

Besides I like playing with new toys every few months or so, it prevents my computer from being a boring work machine.

[tht00]

How many of you are going to install Feisty as soon as the the stable version hits? This is the place to let everyone know. If there are specific reasons why you will or won't adopt it, let's talk about it!

I already have.

Really, it isn't that big of a deal. It's been stable for me when I installed it as Herd 5, which reminds me that I need to do some updates.

I've noticed many people that are into Ubuntu at all upgrade before it hits the 'stable'/final release.

[dashnak]

I won't do it.... I just won't.... Seems that every time I update as soon as a new version comes out, something horrible, catastrophic, happens.....
So I guess I'll just wait and see.....

[tclark]

I'm running the beta now and I'm happy with it. I really appreciate the better wireless network management. Most of the rest is, in my view, nice incremental improvement.

[bfledderjohn]

I just upgraded one of my laptops to Feisty beta. It seems like everything went well. If anything goes wonky, I'll post it here.

I'll try upgrading the other laptop tonight. I will still hold off on the desktop for a bit.

Bret

[diatribe]

I've been running feisty for the last several months, aside from a few issues its been stable for me the entire time. As far as the kernel goes, I'm running 2.6.20-13

[darksong]

I like feisty, its a little slower than Edgy but i expect that as its still in beta stages. It does have a few more great config tools, i like the way my 3D excellerated drivers work out the box with a few simple click. Compiz is easy to get working. But the theme again is still a little boring and the Gnome menu bars could do with a little improving, in my opinion.

Can't wait for the final release of this.

[AusIV4]

I'll wait until I have a reason to upgrade. Going from Dapper to Edgy proved problematic, and one of my computers is still on Dapper because I never found Edgy to be reliable with RAID and LVM. So far, I'm not aware of any must-haves offered by Feisty and not Edgy, and I don't want to spend time messing with an upgrade when everything works well enough now. It looks like Feisty will be easier to configure than past versions, but since my systems are already configured the way I want them, it would seem silly to upgrade because it will be easy to get back to where I already was.

When I do upgrade, I'll do so on a different partition than my primary one, so if there are any problems, I'll just have to adjust grub to revert to my stable partition. I've learned my lesson about upgrading too quickly.

[nu2this]

I put in maybe because I usually download when the latest release comes out, then install about 3 days later. After 3days the 1st fix updates if any are out, been doing it since Breezy.

[sizzam]

I'm going to install it as soon as it goes gold.

[Bosambo]

Installed the Beta due to the promises of wireless out of the box...works without a hitch, only after some tweaking of the router...wasn't able to pinpoint the exact reason I couldn't at first see my router with all the security turned on, but I'll further investigate each security feature one by one tonight to find which one stops communication. The real point is that my USB wireless adapter was up and running as soon as I plugged it in. I couldn't get it at all detected on Edgy and didn't own it while I was on Dapper. Only installed it last night, and will spend the evening trying to install Nvidia drivers and getting my DVB tuner and DVD video working...such fun!

[cstudent]

I already upgraded my laptop about a week ago. Only problem so far was with Network Manager. I ended up disabling it for now. I've been running Ubuntu on this laptop (Acer Aspire 3500) since Breezy and this is the first time the screen resolution was correct right out of the box. I didn't have to reconfigure xserver to get it right. I plan to upgrade my desktop after the final release comes out next month. I'm thinking about building a new desktop as well.

[tgoose]

Assuming it works from a live CD, I don't see any good reason not to upgrade.

[phillytim]

Absolutely - in fact, Feisty marks my return to Linux after a few years! Work has been crazy, and I've lost touch some with Linux developments.

When I saw Feisty beta (of Kubuntu), I installed it on my system, and will keep it there and upgrade as the updates are released.

Every so often I like to install Linux to keep up as it gains new features. And I think my Feisty install is a keeper! It seems stable enough for me already.

My PC just needs more memory (or upgraded) so I can do some virtual machine Windows to get off Windows all together!

[mhenriday]

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When I do upgrade, I'll do so on a different partition than my primary one, so if there are any problems, I'll just have to adjust grub to revert to my stable partition. I've learned my lesson about upgrading too quickly.

As I've mentioned on another thread (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=385366), I ran into uuid problems when attempting to upgrade from Edgy to Feisty, and my attempts failed. Hopefully in the «final» release this type of problem will have been resolved, and I intend to upgrade as soon as this release is posted. I first tried to go back to my earlier kernel, Ubuntu 2.6.17-11-386, but even here I failed, and a so-called kernel panic occurred. In the end, I was forced to first install Dapper from my live CD and then upgrade to Edgy. Here I did an automatic partitioning which maintained my previous partitions, hoping thereby to save my data. But I cannot get my machine to boot from GRUB to the previous kernel. Any suggestions how I can boot from this partition and retrieve my data ?...

Henri

[nanog]

The beta worked better and required less tweaking than Edgy on my laptops (Dell e1405 and Toshiba sattelite A70). Feisty herd5 and beta have been rock solid on a dev desktop (Dell 3100). Will upgrade a server and 4 desktops when the final comes out.

[kejava]

My PC just needs more memory (or upgraded) so I can do some virtual machine Windows to get off Windows all together!This is a very good alternative to dual booting. I'm running WinXP as a guest using VMWare on an Edgy install. What do plan to use? VMware, Xen, or other?

[ichilegend]

I agree with what AusIV4 said earlier. I was running fine on Dapper, but Edgy caused me problems. Specifically the 2.6.17 kernel was problematic even on my Fedora machines. Feisty is running like a charm. All my apps and hardware work and I really like the fact that they warn you about proprietary hardware binaries such as the Nvidia driver and the Intel 3945 Centrino wireless card through the Restricted Drivers Manager. I still use them, but the warning is nice. All in all the Ubuntu install is the easiest of any OS I have used and with the Live CD, you know it is going to work before you install. I even had my wife asking to use it because "it works better than Vista on the Internet."

[lamalex]

tell her to blow vista away and install ubuntu with compiz and the likes. Waaay better than any junk MS can sell you.

[fdrake]

i will upgrade only when i feel i'll need to.. . so far edgy is doing a good job ! :)

[ichilegend]

tell her to blow vista away and install ubuntu with compiz and the likes. Waaay better than any junk MS can sell you.

I agree, if it wasn't for the fact that I have to learn Vista to support end users, I would have ditched it long ago. My work gave me a sweet Dell XPS laptop that I dual boot between Feisty and Vista. At work, I manage my whole 96 site Windows network from my Linux box though. I use beryl and emerald. I like pretty things :).

[SDF-1]

tell her to blow vista away and install ubuntu with compiz and the likes. Waaay better than any junk MS can sell you.

i have never ever seen a linux commercial on TV in my life before in Australia. when ubuntu releases feisty fawn, they should make a "commercial tease ad" saying why linux is better than vista, just like how the apple mac ads in australia show why mac is better than vista. if ubuntu can make a ad now and release it as soon as fesity fawn releases, i reckon millions of people will change their minds.

[lamalex]

novell released a few, lemme find you the link:
http://cdn.novell.com/cached/video/bs_07/mac_pc_linux.OGG
http://cdn.novell.com/cached/video/bs_07/mac_pc_linux_2.OGG
http://cdn.novell.com/cached/video/bs_07/mac_pc_linux_3.OGG
enjoy :)

[old_geekster]

I upgraded to Feisty - Herd 5, last Tuesday. From what I have read, by installing all of the updates, I will be where I need to be on April 19. I will be ready to go.

[frogotronic]

Yes.

In fact, I have already adopted it after Herd4. I used to use Dapper, which was excellent - but has some performance problems - principally, some OpenOffice Issues with Impress (very slow slide transitions, terrible font rendering) - but those (serious) problems were solved with Feisty Fawn.

Overall I did not like Edgy - and the upgrade from Dapper to Edgy didn't work well at all.

Feisty is MUCH, MUCH, MUCH, MUCH better than Edgy, easier to install, easier to configure and got a bulletproof wireless set-up.

Unfortunately, Feisty Fawn got bite by the legacy nVIDIA 9631 implementation just prior to it's release, but I just roll my own driver a la tselliot's guide.

Feisty Fawn is by far and away the best Ubuntu so far, and the easiest GNU/Linux I've ever used.

- CH

[Lster]

Im already running Fiesty too :). When it is released I will reinstall though - dunno why ;)...

[andrewPCT]

I already updated to Feisty a few weeks ago on my desktop. The only problem I had was it wouldn't boot after the update. After some searching on the forums, I found that I had to set some modules to load (to handle the SATA drive). No problems since. The other week I updated my Ubuntu partition on my laptop without problem.

[Lux9698]

Yes,
I'll upgrade right away.
In fact, I have Feisty Beta running already on 2 machines.

There are nice tools included, what I can't wait to use, like, NTFS mounting, Compiz,
better network connection, etc.

:popcorn: