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Hoary Hedgehog Ubuntu 5.04 Released

Posted by Zonk on from the best-release-name-evar dept.

Simon (S2) writes "Ubuntu Linux 5.04, code name 'Hoary Hedgehog', is now available. It offers the following new features: Simple and fast Installation, live CD's for Intel x86, AMD64 and PPC, GNOME 2.10.1, Firefox 1.0.2, first class productivity software, and X.org 6.8.2. Read the announcement and the complete release notes. Quick download links for the i386 architecture: ubuntu-5.04-install-i386.iso.torrent (587MB) and ubuntu-5.04-live-i386.iso.torrent (625MB). Install CD and live CD images for AMD64 and PowerPC computers are also available." Kubuntu is out in a new release as well. Screenshots available of the Kubuntu release. Update: 04/08 14:21 GMT by Z : Made the direct ISO links torrents.

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  1. Torrents man by ShepyNCL · · Score: 5, Informative

    Put a link to the torrents as well.

    Its only through lawful and fair use of the technology that its not going to be attacked as a p2p mechanism. It was created for distribution of Linux isos, sue it for that.

    And it saves the Ubuntu team some bandwidth

    Installs:
    http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.04/ubuntu -5.04-install-amd64.iso.torrent
    http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.04/ubuntu -5.04-install-i386.iso.torrent
    http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.04/ubuntu -5.04-install-powerpc.iso.torrent

    Live CD:
    http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.04/ubuntu -5.04-live-amd64.iso.torrent
    http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.04/ubuntu -5.04-live-i386.iso.torrent
    http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.04/ubuntu -5.04-live-powerpc.iso.torrent

    -Shepy

  2. Ubuntu rocks by koody · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

    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

    1. Re:Ubuntu rocks by idn · · Score: 4, Informative

      About the media support you can just get VLC from the Ubuntu repositories and that plays pretty much everything.

      Graphical installer has been moved to the next release as has some other nice hci improvments like a boot splash

  3. They will even send you FREE CD's by mathmatt · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here you can sign up for free CD's.

  4. DVD Torrent Links by calc · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are also DVD torrent links that include all of Ubuntu main.

    amd64 - http://torrent.ubuntu.com/dvd/20050407.3/hoary-dvd -amd64.iso.torrent
    i386 - http://torrent.ubuntu.com/dvd/20050407.3/hoary-dvd -i386.iso.torrent

  5. Re:Whacked names by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hoary Hedgehogs are common in South Africa and businesspeople relate very well to them. As well as the elephants and lions on the street corners and the aardvarks and jakkalse. Of course, if it was called Sprinkbok, life would be much better....

  6. Distrowatch by grokster · · Score: 5, Informative
    I am sure it will become one of the top distributions very soon.

    Seen the Distrowatch ranking?

  7. Instructions to upgrade warty to hoary by jhdevos · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HoaryUpgradeNotes

    If this goes as easily as most of my past debian upgrades, I will be running Hoary in about 30 minutes :-)

    Jan

  8. Re:WTF? by speel3k · · Score: 5, Informative

    beacause it just works simple as that .. you plug in a thumb drive it mounts you put in a music cd it works yea i know this is probably easy to set up your self and also no more dependency hell lol and as i said again it just works

    --
    Life is like a bag of chips you never know whats next
    Speel
  9. Re:Ubuntu on Distrowatch Hit List by elasticwings · · Score: 5, Informative

    I switched to Ubuntu from Fedora Core 3 a few weeks ago. To be honest, as a desktop, Ubuntu has Fedora beat hands down for me. It runs hella faster on newer hardware. It's setup to work with Apt/Synaptic by default. The Gnome desktop is much newer than the one they're using with Fedora Core 3. I know they have the new version of Gnome in FC4 Test 1, but it has lots of problems. Ubuntu works and works well. Oh and the apt servers are alot faster than the ones for Fedora. In general, I've had alot of good luck with this distro. As a matter of fact, I installed it on a newly aquired laptop last night. Once again, it works beautifully.

  10. Gratis Shipped CDs by makohill · · Score: 5, Informative

    Like last time, we're also sending out free pressed CDs in the mail (gratis CDs, gratis shipping). If you want them, you can sign up for them at http://shipit.ubuntulinux.org

  11. Re:WTF? by finkployd · · Score: 4, Informative

    I figured it was all total hype until I started installing it to see what it was like. When I found that it kicked the collective asses of every other distribution I have ever tried (Redhat, Slackware, Debian, Mandrake, SuSE, Turbo, Storm, Gentoo, and others) in terms of hardware detection and configuration, I figured out what the fuss was about. Otherwise it is ok, nothing particularly special, but damn can it detect and correctly configure some obscure hardware.

    For that reason alone, I recommend it to newbies.

    Finkployd

  12. Re:KDE and Gnome by digidave · · Score: 4, Informative

    Or just download Ubuntu and 'apt-get install kubuntu-desktop' and you now have a system running KDE identical to the Kubuntu CD. Or install the Kubuntu CD and 'apt-get install ubuntu-desktop' and you get the same results.

    the ubuntu and kubuntu packages are meta-packages that install whichever desktop you want.

    --
    The global economy is a great thing until you feel it locally.
  13. Re:Real question by _Hellfire_ · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's fairly straightforward:

    1) Grab a root console (Applications->System Tools->Root Console) and type the password for the first unprivilidged account on your system.

    2) vi /etc/apt/sources.list

    3) Replace the lines that are marked thusly:

    deb http://ubuntu.../ warty main

    and type this instead:

    deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted
    deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted

    deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted
    deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted

    (ignore Slashdot's anti-goatse domain display feature)

    Note: this may be as simple as replacing every instance of warty with hoary - but I'm not sure.

    3) Save the file (ie esc :wq [enter])

    4) type apt-get update

    5) type apt-get dist-upgrade

    6) Wait for everything to download, cross your fingers nothing breaks and enjoy.

    disclaimer: it's late at night. I may have missed something...

    --
    "And then I visited Wikipedia ...and the next 8 hours are a blur..."
  14. Re:Minimum requirements? by jrasmussen0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ubuntu can do this but you should use XFCE desktop or another stripped down desktop for that little memory.

    If you install Ubuntu (Hoary or Warthog), then hit 'Esc' after the reboot to choose to start up in 'safe mode' (no gnome startup). Then log in as user and run 'aptitude'. When it asks you to run as root just type in the user password, there is no root password. Type '/' and search for 'xfce' and press '+' to select, then 'g' to go and download and install. The quit aptitude and 'sudo reboot' (which may ask for the user password).

    At the graphical login screen. Click on the 'Session' option and choose XFCE.

  15. DVD Install Images by EAVY · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ubuntu 5.04 now provides images for installation from DVD. The DVD install image includes all supported packages, including those Not installed by default.

    Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) Install/live DVD

    The combined install/live DVD allows you either to install Ubuntu permanently on a computer, or (by entering 'live' at the boot prompt) to try Ubuntu without changing your computer at all. There are three images available, each for a different type of computer:

    Install/live DVD for AMD64 computers (BitTorrent download)

    Install/live DVD for Intel x86 computers (BitTorrent download)

    Install/live DVD for PowerPC computers (BitTorrent download)

    --
    -- Eavy (: Linux Is Not UniX :)