The previous version 7.10 Desktop running on my newly acquired old Thinkpad X30 has poor stability when it comes to Wifi connection. The connection would work for 10-20 minutes and then die. This happens w/ a Linksys 802.11g PCMCIA card running on some voodoo Win32 blob driver over an emulation layer, as well as an ASUS WL-167G USB Wifi adaptor, which is OSS-friendly and is supposed to be well supported by all Free OSes. Hopefully 8.04 fixes this.
The preferred upgrade method is thru the Internet in Windows-upgrade style. I initiated the upgrade but cancelled it when I saw that it would take over 5 hours to download ~700MB of stuff. It is possible to download the CD and upgrade from there. It was already late last night so I fired up the Bittorrent client and left it overnight. The Desktop CD was ready in the morning but it was the Alternate CD that I need for upgrade. Bummer.
I just got the torrent file for the Alternate CD and started downloading. It was very fast for my dingy 3Mb ADSL line. Download rate fluctuates a bit from ~100KB/s to ~250KB/s. Power of the swarm.
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