Creeva’s World 2.0

So for about the last 2–3 weeks my sound card on my lap­top stopped work­ing.  I tried to trace down the path on how I man­aged to get it work­ing in the first place, but it was a con­vo­luted path and I don’t seem to be able to retrace my steps.   So fail­ing this I decided to upgrade my Gutsy Gib­bon AMD64 ver­sion of Ubuntu to Hardy Heron.   I didn’t know it was as sim­ple as run­ning “update-manager –d” at the ter­mi­nal window.

When you  run this com­mand it brings up the nor­mal pack­age updater but states that there is a new ver­sion you can ge — also giv­ing the name and the ver­sion = Hardy Heron 8.04.  After this choice it then checks for com­pat­i­bil­ity issues with pro­grams (includ­ing some it rec­om­mends being dis­abled on reboot) it also tells me that it dropped sup­port for Nes­sus.  Per­son­ally I find the lat­ter annoy­ing but I’ll live.

Cur­rently I’m wait­ing another hour and half for all the files to down­load (1235 to be exact).  I’ll post how it went after it is done.

Until then here is an Ars Tech­nica arti­cle about Hardy Heron