Slashdot Mirror

this is a _copy_ of a _copy_. the geocities site on which the copy
is hosted is overloaded. so i made a copy of the google cache, here:

http://hands.com/~lkcl/activa.holdings.report.by.l ouisette.lanteigne.html

Download the torrent

New stuff include

• Gnome 2.10.1, which makes the desktop a lot faster than before
• X.org
• Simplified update- and package management
• Much faster boot process
• Better laptop support (ie suspending, hibernating, processor frequency scaling)
• Kickstart support for automated largescale installations
• Live CD and Install CD both use the new debian installer infrastructure
• UTF-8 by default
• A program for collecting information about what hardware works and what doesn't
• Kubuntu - complete KDE 3.4 based version of Ubuntu

Stuff people are going to bitch about

• No graphical installer. The current installer is extremely simple and has been streamlined even further in this release. A graphical installer is planned for the next version (Breezy Badger).
• No menu editor installed. One can always edit the files by hand, or install kmenu or something similar for gnome. The official gnome menu editor just didn't finish in time.
• No DivX or MP3 support. These are simple to add though and anyone coming from debian will probably already know of the Marillat repositories. Just look at the instructions in the wiki or use Hoary After-Install helper or another script to do the dirty work for you.

OSDir has published a lot of screenshots of Ubuntu.

Oh and if you are interested to know if your laptop or other piece of hardware is supported, some info can be found in the wiki on the Hardware support-page

Primary mirrors

• United States
• United Kingdom
• Europe

Other mirrors

Australia Canada Croatia Czech Republic France Germany Germany Ireland Italy Lithuania Namibia Netherlands Norway Portugal Portugal South Africa Spain Switzerland United Kingdom United Kingdom United Kingdom United States United States United States

the code's _crawling_ out the woodwork today. thirteen _years_. bittorrent too although it's a lot smaller than 90mbytes...

ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/OpenCD/
ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/pc/TheOpenCD/
ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/mirror /opencd/
ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/filepilot/windows/tools/t he_open_cd/releases/
ftp://ftp.uoi.gr/mirror/opencd/
ftp://neacm.fe.up.pt/pub/OpenCD/
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/theopencd.org/TheOp enCD/
ftp://theopencd.hands.com/theopencd/
ftp://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/gd.tuwien.ac.at/ pc/OpenCD/
ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/windows/opencd
ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/opencd/
ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/TheOpenCD/
ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/windows/opencd/

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except that apt-geting asterisk will get you a release candidate version (0.9.1+1.0RC1-8) and this news item is about the release of the actual version 1.0.0

There was a version of the Debian package that was labeled as 1.0 a while back, but that was as a result of a versioning cock-up in the asterisk CVS.

At present, you're probably better off grabbing the source and reading the README.

That's right -- I'm running it on a piece of junk that was about to be thrown in a skip by one of my customers --- stick two new & shiny 120GB drives in, with software raid, and make a mondoarchive backup on a CD and you have all the warm & cudly feelings that Ocelot Wreak was after for a cost of about 150 pounds (and that includes the 2 ISDN2 cards bought via eBay, and an FXO card).

Of course, I'm using a minimal Debian install on it, so it's not got X windows, so no screen saver discomfort :-)

P.S. Asterisk 1.0.0 available from my mirror