I'm really cautious about Ubuntu's April releases. If I do not see any
horror stories about it by June, I'll download 8.04 then.

It's strange, but a couple of years ago, when I switched entirely over
to Ubuntu, I lost my ability to experiment with Linux. When Ubuntu was
no longer a toy that was delegated to my back up computer, but my only
OS on both of my computers, it became critical that it did everything
right every time.

7.04 seriously crippled both of my machines. For me it was beyond
twitchy. After a lot of mucking around, I was able to get 6.10 to work
on one of my machines and I put Mepis on the other and muddled through
until 7.10 came out.

Like 6.10 before it, 7.10 has been solid as a rock. I'm going to be
slow to move away from it.

This morning I updated to Hardy 8.04 alpha-6.
It fixed my USB problem, it mounts fine.
But, the sound/audio does not work.

I reported the bug. Guess what?
They know about this bug in Hardy 8.04, and they are working on it, and expect
to
release an update fixing this bug by tomorrow morning.

So if Firefox 3 is due to be the default browser,
what role can we expect for Konqueror? Will it
be excluded from the final build, or will it
just be relegated to file managing duties?

Like with Ubuntu 7.10, you will probably be able to install Konqueror
through Synaptic in 8.04.

Hopefully, there'll be the option to continue using KDE 3.x - my
experience/opinion of version 4, so far (from one of the OpenSUSe Live
CD's), is that it's somewhat nasty ...