Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron)

Until recently I had been using Vista Ultimate 64 bit on my home PC.  It was very nice and worked well but then Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron came out and I had to try it.  I had been toying with Fedora 9 and even OpenSolaris 2008.5 but I found Hardy to be the best for my hardware and it was the most familiar.  So, as in my previous venture into 7.10, I installed Hardy on my 40GB system drive and set my /home partition to a  slice of my 120GB storage drive – the remainder of which was still in NTFS with all my documents, music and videos.  This way I could copy most of my stuff over to the /home and then resize the NTFS and /home using GParted.  After a couple of cycles of doing this, I’ve now ended up like I had with Gutsy with a 120GB /home.

Overall, I’m very pleased with Hardy.  The performance on my meagre hardware is streets ahead of Vista (and I thought THAT was good).  I have Compiz set up nicely and it just hums along.  Like last time, I have VirtualBox running with XP so I can log into work.

Click the thumbnail to see my current desktop.

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