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An old Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu. Codenamed "Hardy Heron". Released on 24th April 2008. Reached full End of Life (EOL) on 9th May, 2013.

An old Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu. Released on 24th April 2008. Support for desktops has ended on 12th May 2011, servers were supported until 9th May, 2013. Codenamed "Hardy Heron".

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Upgrade experiences from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS?

I am running 8.04 desktop as a server and hosting my own web server, has anyone experienced any issues with upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04?
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Using up arrow to run previous command

What setup do I need to use up-arrow to run previous command? With Mac, I can use up-arrow to rerun the command that I just run, but it doesn't seem to work with my bash shell. I use 8.04 (I can't use the newest distribution because of some…
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Why is dhclient saying: "SIOCSIFADDR: Permission denied"?

I have encountered a very weird error on ubuntu-server (8.04), I have no idea why dhclient is not allowed to set the network settings! I'm not the one who installed the server in the first place, so i don't know much about the setup. The server is…
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Can I log to a non-default shell?

I love fish. I have a nice Ubuntu 8.04 Server running some services. So I edited the /etc/passwd file, as I did in the past, to change my default shell from bash to fish. And ,yes, I made I typo (BTW: I know about chsh, I'm just that stupid and…
Javier Rivera
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Where is IBM Lotus Symphony today?

This question sparks from a bug report on LibreOffice forum. Yes, I know much of the functionality of Lotus Symphony was supposedly incorporated into OO about the time LO split off. This question isn't about that. I'm looking for someone who has a…
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Which Ubuntu version to use for my Python web app?

I'm building a security-intensive (stores credit card numbers, etc) using Python and Django with UWSGI (written in C), NGINX, and PIL (Python Imaging Library). I'm trying to work my way up in the Ubuntu world to be less of an ignoramus, so I just…
orokusaki
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How can I use cron to schedule a script that implements daylight saving on a non- DST aware application when my server automatically uses DST?

My server (running ubuntu 8.04LTS server) reports the time as 9:38PM BST right now. BST (British Summer Time) is 1 hour ahead of UTC (or Greenwich Mean Time if you really want to confuse matters) The act of parliament defines that we in the UK use…
Neil Trodden
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Starting a service from /etc/event.d works, but not from /etc/init

I'm trying to launch an upstart service on Ubuntu 8.04 from /etc/init/, but I always get start: Unknown job: job. When I try to launch this script from /etc/event.d/ it works fine. Why would this be and how would I fix it?
HighLife
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ddebs missing for hardy?

I'm trying to debug some crashes on a 8.04 LTS server, but the ddebs repository at http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/dists/ no longer has a directory for hardy... Any ideas where the debug symbols for hardy have moved to?
James
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How do I stop the installer putting invalid entries in my /etc/hosts file?

I have a number of Hardy hosts that seem to get an invalid hostname placed in their /etc/hosts during the installation process. There's a line in /etc/hosts on a freshly built, unmodified host that looks like this 127.0.1.1 …
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Upgrading to 10.04 broke my TrueMobile 1150 wireless

My laptop was running 8.04 LTS (hardy), using network manager I believe, and the wireless worked fine. I do not believe I was using ndiswrapper, as the original version of Ubuntu I installed (edgy) just auto-detected everything. I did an upgrade to…
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Install Ubuntu 8.04 in triple-boot with Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows 8.1

No, this isn't the typical duplicate question about dual Ubuntu (12+) with Windows 8. I am way past that, dual booting beautifully Ubuntu 14.04 LTS & Windows 8.1, thanks to this excellent answer (although I didn't have to resort to all of tricks…
Bill The Ape
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How to configure domain name on school network

I'm trying to set up my server (running Ubuntu server 8.04) on my university network so that I can access it from anywhere on campus. Last year I had it plugged into my router and set my router's domain like network.myschool.edu and hostname to dlh.…
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Problem opening SFX archive file(.exe) using the archive manager

I have installed both rar and unrar using apt-install but I am still not able to use archive manager for opening the archive file.. I have also tried installing p7zip(p7zip-full and p7zip) but no improvements... However, when I use command-line for…
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Why don't 8.04 panel launchers work on 10.04

I copied my panel launchers verbatim from 8.04 to 10.04, residing in both systems in the same path: $HOME/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers However, for some reason, they are not visible on 10.04's GNOME panel. Why? Update 1: In my attempts to…
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