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What?

Sheesh, Windows doesn't automatically update all software I install on my Windows box... So don't say that again, ok?

Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 is an LTS (Long Term Support) Edition that aims to provide more stability (this is needed in, as an example, businesses, where they usually don't need the latest bells and whistles but do need a strong OS that has, errr... Long Term Support).

What this all means is that this Edition is made so it upgrades by default only when a newer LTS Edition is out rather than upgrading every time a new version comes up (making you feel more secure by using the same stuff for i think it's 18 months or so, or by the robustness gained when the same code can be looked upon and corrected, also providing means so you don't have to spend a ton of cash every time you need to train your personel, and so and so). This also means that you don't have to struggle to keep upgrading your Ubuntu every 6 months which, believe me, can cost a great deal of money in IT people hours.

There's plenty of helpful hints on how to upgrade from Hardy Heron 8.04 to Intrepid Ibex 8.10 that mostly will help or confuse you with, uuuuuuh spooky, terminal commands. But if you don't want to copy/paste the instructions then look for ones that tell you how to do so from Synaptic.

Ubuntu does upgrade EVERY module, the kernel and the OS via it's own updates manager (cleverly named, err.., update-manager) WHEN it doesn't mean that you will have a conflict with the other software you installed from other non Canonical repositories. It will notify you of such needs on the system tray, and with just some clicks (as in mouse, not 'Nam) and some time, you will be upgraded to the newest version, keeping your older settings, documents and such.

It will, however, change some stuff that you might have customized (say, you substituted some icons on the gnome icon theme folder, rather than creating a new theme).

It could be, thought, that there are some applications that: a) You upgraded yourself by using other repositories or compiled from source, b) You installed from somewhere else and needed you to upgrade or downgrade other modules for them to work as you want; though i think that this might not be your case though, because i somehow think that you might not be that well versed to know how to do such things or know what you are doing.

AFAIK there's no disappearance of module repositories... You must be definitively be doing something very very wrong if that's your case.

If you calm down, stop bashing the Distro (when as far as we can see it's probably your fault) and show some manners I would gladly help you to know how to solve this issue (or point you in the right direction to get help).

goddamn that was a fucking stupid comment

you make me sick