Conclusions
Ubuntu 8.10 is a mixed bag. The regressions, things that worked on earlier versions that don't work reliably now, on our test desktop system were enough to make it fail as a candidate for production use. The rush to the fixed release date seems to have played against the quality of Ubuntu 8.10, but where there has been progress, it's been good progress; our test system installed without the BIOS tweaking that 8.04 needed for example. But if you have a working Ubuntu 8.04, then 8.10 isn't going to bring much improvement that couldn't be achieved by just installing more up to date packages. Hopefully, by the time Jaunty Jackalope arrives in the spring of next year as Ubuntu 9.04, then the extra months of development will take care of the problems we've found and be able to reliably detect displays and suspend/resume properly and come with a current version of OpenOffice and make it easy and obvious on how to connect a bluetooth phone on 3G and tidy up that timezone selector and...
See also:
![Kernel Log: Coming in 3.10 (Part 3) [--] Infrastructure](/imgs/43/1/0/4/2/6/7/2/comingin310_4_kicker-4977194bfb0de0d7.png)
![Kernel Log: Coming in 3.10 (Part 3) [--] Infrastructure](/imgs/43/1/0/4/2/3/2/3/comingin310_3_kicker-151cd7b9e9660f05.png)
