Installing Hardy Heron over the beta version.

Submitted by arieh zimmerman on Tue, 2008-04-22 12:05.

Greetings,I downloaded 8.04 beta about a month ago.  It appears very stable and, even as a new comer to Ubuntu, easy to use.The final release will be out in another few days.  Is there any easy way to install the release over the beta?  Home partition and others are seperate.Thanks in advance for any advice.Arieh Zimmerman
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Upgrading to Final Releases
Submitted by quidpro on Tue, 2008-04-22 14:25.

All you need to do to get to the final release is continue with whatever update notifications pop up, which you've probably been doing already. The final release is more of a "take care of as many bugs as possible" release. This continually happens over the lifespan of the release, of course. There may be some features that get dropped, or not chosen by default. For example, the Murrine theme in hardy was looked at for a while, but at some point during the betas they reverted back to the human theme. (Murrine is still there, just not the default.) Once in a while, you may be notified of obsolete packages which can be removed using "apt-get autoremove", but that will also happen from time to time when bugs are found, or packages get upgraded, during normal day to day use. So in short, you don't have to do anything differently than you are already doing, assuming that you normally do the updates from time to time. :) Another post regarding the same question here: http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/04/21/upgrading-from-beta-to-rc-and-beyond/

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updating beta 8.04
Submitted by arieh zimmerman on Tue, 2008-04-22 16:17.

One more reason to flee MS.Thanks

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