Hoary is impressive

21 May 2005

For a hedgehog.

No, really – it’s like Warty, only beautiful. It feels like a far more mature system, and everything just works. They’ve switched it to X.org from the old X server, and the font rendering shows it. Applications which previously clawed your eyes out when upgrades were attempted now work flawlessly (most notably Firefox and Liferea, for myself). Audio works a charm, with even XMMS now playing nice.

It’s good.

Mostly because of the interfaces.

In related news, I downloaded that ISO and didn’t use it – no big deal, seeing as I grabbed it from files.bigpond.com (doesn’t count towards my quota) and it went quickly – because it’s possible to simply edit the sources.list file and use Synaptic to update everything!

Basically change all references from “warty” to “hoary” in your sources.list file ( /etc/apt/sources.list ) and run Synaptic. Took me about an hour and a half from editing the sources.list file to a completed upgrade, no breakages.

Good work, Ubuntu!