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Hoary Hedgehog Ubuntu 5.04 Released
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.
Put a link to the torrents as well.
u -5.04-install-amd64.iso.torrent u -5.04-install-i386.iso.torrent u -5.04-install-powerpc.iso.torrent
u -5.04-live-amd64.iso.torrent u -5.04-live-i386.iso.torrent u -5.04-live-powerpc.iso.torrent
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/ubunt
http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.04/ubunt
http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.04/ubunt
Live CD:
http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.04/ubunt
http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.04/ubunt
http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.04/ubunt
-Shepy
Download the torrent
New stuff include
Stuff people are going to bitch about
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
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to base all your company's infrastructure on. Doesn't that just give you the warm fuzzies?
Here you can sign up for free CD's.
Leave your torrent clients open after you're finished.
:)
Let's not reduce Canonical's servers to smoldering piles of silicon over the next few days
"And then I visited Wikipedia
Ubuntu Linux is the best distribution I have ever installed. The guy behind this (I forget his name) has invested a small fortune, and I am sure it will become one of the top distributions very soon.
I emplore all Slashdotters to at least have a brief look at Hoary. It really is the "Mutts nuts"!
It's interesting that Ubuntu, a binary distro based on slow old Debian, has Gnome stable on 2.10.1, while we bleeding-edge Gentoo users are still on 2.8....
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....
Seen the Distrowatch ranking?
To create the best Linux brew
We must join the very top two
To prevent any illusion
Of brand name confusion
Call it MandrivaGNU/KUbuntu
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
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
Actually, Ubuntu was actually a scheme by the Gentoo user community to get rid of the fanboys. We figured that if we could create a distro that had an even more obscure name than Gentoo, all of the fanboys would flock to it so that they could stay l33t. It seems to have worked perfectly.
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.
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
i'm a windows user (dont hurt me), and ive tried tons of linux distros over the past 10 years. ubuntu is the ONLY one that "just works".. everything of mine worked, it felt fast and clean. No spending hours trying to get it to work with my display, or trying to navigate the thousands of directories with multiple versions of applications that all do the same thing. Every distro ive tried just seemed so bloated and confusing, there was so much stuff i could never find what I wanted. But Ubuntu loaded right up, everything worked, it was super fast (i always wondered how people could use linux, it always seemed slower than a bloated windows install..but not ubuntu), i also like how theres only 1 gui to choose from. It's just fast/clean, and i may eventually switch to it
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Fun codes names are so that we don't take ourselves too seriously. Much more dangerous IMHO. ;)
If this was truly a ploy by the Gentoo user community got rid of all the fanboys, then who's left? ;)
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.
"Apple Macintosh"
"Microsoft Windows"
now, please tell me if you think those names somehow indicate that the respective products are desktop computer operating systems.
"Ubuntu hoary hedgehog" makes just as much sense as "Apple OSX Tiger" or even "Microsoft Windows Longhorn".
Acutally, I take the names to mean:
Tiger - endangered species in (some) parts of the world
Longhorn - the bull(y) of the market
Hedgehog - secure from predators and perhaps fond of cheese chili dogs and/or blue in colour
SIGERR: laziness exceeds quota