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Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" Released
An anonymous reader writes "Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" has been released! Direct links for the US install iso or the US install torrent file." Update: 10/13 18:08 GMT by Z : Linux.com has a look at the release, in-depth.
... or leaked?
OK. I give. What is so amazing about Ubuntu? Do they compile thier stuff with special options or have some whiz-bang installation program?
In the USA, we like stuff watered down, like beer, television, and freedom.
You might wanna read the review on Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger, while you download the ISO.
w00t
Wake me up when the "Acneous Aardvark" version comes out, ok?
http://www.kubuntu.org/download.php
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Evan
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
The poster forgot the <a href="bash:apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade">direct upgrade link</a>. :)
BTW, if you're looking for an easy to set up LTSP-based distro, Ubuntu's a good choice (IMHO). The release candidates have been very good improvements over 5.04 - mostly in terms of (lots of) more subtle polish type things.
That site rocks. Got almost everything I could want set up very nicely. I probably won't even move up to 5.10 until Ubuntuguide is updated.
PHEM - party like it's 1997-2003!
If you're not a big fan of the Ubuntu brown default theme, check out the Blended metacity theme and the nuoveXT icon set. They definetly add a 2005.10 (modern day) feel to the system.
Go Ubuntu!Will apt-get dist-upgrade update me to breezy or do I need to adjust my repos?
OR is a fresh install needed because of the gcc4.0 update?
what command can I type to see exactly what 'version' I am using right now?
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~Plato (427-347 BC)
...but will you do it at the top of a mountain? Check out the Extreme Ubuntu Install Challenge!
"On October 2, 2005, two good friends and I hiked up Middle Sugarloaf Mountain in the White Mountains region of New Hampshire. But this wasn't your typical hike; this hike had extreme geek value. For at the top of the mountain, I was going to install Ubuntu Breezy on my laptop.
To my knowledge, no one has ever accomplished such a feat in history. Probably, this is because no one would want to. I'd like to change that. Ubuntu geeks of the world, I challenge you - where can you install Ubuntu in an extreme environment? Has Ubuntu ever been installed on a skyscraper window-washing scaffold? On an active volcano? While standing on your head the whole time? Just think of the possibilities!
When you have a laptop, a mission, and no sense of social shame, anything is possible. What follows is one man's story of hardship and triumph, as he scales a mountain to install Ubuntu linux..."
Let this be a lesson - Keep your badgers away from beans!!!
Professor Karmadillo Songs of Science
Ubuntu has become my main desktop and laptop (iBook) distro of choice, beating out Gentoo last year. I just did a fresh install of 5.10 Monday on the iBook, and it's just so nice. On the workstation we've been tracking Breezy for about a month now, and the polish just keeps coming. Can't wait till they move on Daper, an am especially excited about it being supported for so many years; you can just feel the momentium.
Use whatever Linux distro you like, but if you're looking for one to change to, give this a shot, there's a reason there's so much good press about this company.
fak3r.com
Will I be able to just continue from the point I have been with the preview release? Anyone ran dist-upgrade and have it work yet??
Ubuntu by FAR has been the BEST Linux distro for me. I just want to work on it I don't want to have to compile a bunch of crap (Gentoo anyone) or put up with RPM dependencies (SuSe, Fedora, Red Hat and Madriva). RPM based distros may have yum and apt now, but Debian based distros do it right.
Gorkman
Well, if you insist on the livecds... Here is the x86 livecd or torrent. Here is the PowerPC livecd or torrent. Here is the AMD64 version and the torrent. Happy now?
Other linux flavours released in the last 24hrs include:
;)
Piebox Enterprise Linux 3-U6, 4-U2
Frugalware Linux 0.3
Damn Small Linux 2.0 RC1
B2D Linux 20051011
PHLAK Beta 1 "Littleboy"
So why are the "-buntu" releases getting all the buzz? It's the animal names, isn't it? And is it pronounced OOBOONTOO (orangutan for overhyped) or YOU-BUNT-TOO (a veiled baseball reference)?
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Science -- Sealed, Delivered.
Here is a list of updated mirrors as the main site is very slow.
I'm using it right now, and apart from a new splash screen that resembles the forums theme and the replacement of the GNOME foot with the Ubuntu logo in the top left corner, the most immediately obvious changes to the end user are the features introduced by GNOME 2.12. Namely, the menu editor, disks manager, clipboard daemon, Evince document viewer, drag-and-drop preview, type-ahead-find for Epiphany and GNOME's help browser, and so on. That stupid gedit focus bug is fixed. The switch from OpenOffice 1.1.3 to OpenOffice.org 2.0 (Beta 2) is a substantial one as well; xine 1.1 and AbiWord 1.1, unfortunately, were released too late Breezy's dev cycle and aren't included. Similarly, 5.10 has shipped with GStreamer 0.8, which is still unusable for video, so you'll want to install totem-xine over totem-gstreamer as soon as possible. Under the hood, Ubuntu is now using the 2.6.12 kernel, modular X.org and GCC 4.0.1. Ubuntu has also updated their ATI fglrx drivers to 8.16.20, which gives a significant performance boost (from crap to less crap) for those cursed with ATI cards.
Overall, my end user impressions are that this is a worthy and welcome upgrade to my distribution of choice, but apparently I'm only really scratching the surface. According to the release notes, the major features of 5.10 are advanced thin client integration, an OEM installer, the Edubuntu project for deploying Ubuntu in schools, and Launchpad integration ("Launchpad.net is the new infrastructure that Ubuntu and its derivatives use for translation, bug tracking, sharing code patches, fixes and technical support."). So, in short, I like what I'm seeing, but what I haven't seen looks even better.
The release page is running very slowly; the official Ubuntu Bittorrent tracker (complete with copies of the .torrent digests) is here: http://torrent.ubuntu.com:6969/
I think Ubuntu has a good future and now run it on my development workstation, laptop and server. But, what is more interesting are two big feature they added for Breezy that will make it easier for me to get my clients to consider switching over (including many commercial entities and a pro bono private school.)
# Thin Client Integration: Ubuntu is the first distribution in the world to include deeply-integrated thin client technology. This allows you to deploy Ubuntu in large scale networked environments or, for example, in classrooms, with a lightweight Ubuntu image booting over the network. All Ubuntu management tools work for the thin client image as well as for the server.
# OEM Installer Support This release of Ubuntu has special support for OEM hardware vendors. Ubuntu can be pre-installed and tested without configuring end user information. The user will be asked to complete that configuration (name, timezone and password) upon first startup.
Think about it. If Canonical is successful in getting Ubuntu OEM'd with one of the bigger OEMs, this could be a huge success.
Anything else you'd like to add?
Cunty Cat?
Slashdot social media options: AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and Mobile Text. Why no MySpace?
Now for a usability question, can it play mp3's out of the box? Does it include
all the movieplayer codecs? If not because they are patent encumbered or restricted give me a frigging button to press that will install support for these. Hell it would take fifteen minutes max to build a gdialog installer with python to do this crap for me.
From the ubuntu web site
"If you add the debian-marillat repository to your Ubuntu sources.list (use testing/main), you can use Synaptic or apt-get to install MPlayer, lame, and other tools to deal with non-free formats like DVD and MP3."
Got Code?
My friend, let me introduce you to Cedega and CrossOver Office. So what were you saying about Half-Life 2 and Microsoft Office not working again?
or does my daily "apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade" cron job bring me in line with the new release?
http://www.watacrackaz.com
Or some other flatulent mammal.
For those upgrading from a previous release, instructions can be found on the official Ubuntu wiki.
But yes, essentially "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" is it.
I've been running the unstable/preview release for almost a month, and after resolving a minor DBUS problem i had right after upgrading, its been running extremely solid. The only noteworthy problem I've had is evince like to chrash when reloading/refreshing .dvi documents, this is really impressive for a unstable release IMHO.
;-)
I've been using Ubuntu now for almost one year (I was seeking an open/free alternative to Gentoo), and since then it has become the only Linux flavor I run (well, that and debian for my server). Simply because it gives me the choice of choosing what I want to spend time on. Meaning, I'm not forced to read a multiple pages of documentation to get my digital camera to work, it just works when plugged in. And then if someday I'm like, "Hey, I wanna learn more about HAL/DBUS/whatever" I'm free to mess around with it.
I know its like this with most distributions today, but since I'm a gnome user ubuntu is a perfect fit with their release schedule trying to follow the gnome one.
The only remotely bad thing about Ubuntu is the documentation, not that the wiki isn't nice, its just no FreeBSD or Gentoo handbook
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
replace all references of 'hoary' with 'breezy'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
::shocked that anyone would consider 1GHz computer inadequate for anything::
I've ran a reasonably modern GNOME desktop on a P3-600MHz machine just smoothly without any problems, so I don't think you'll have any problems with a 1GHz machine. Unless you want to play Doom 3 or something.
(I wouldn't consider even getting an operating system / GUI environment that needs whole gigahertz for itself. Would suck knowing that my 3000+ Athlon would chomp 1000 MHz just to run the OS =/ )
The names like Breezy Badger are just code names (like Longhorn and Whistler were). In the corporate environment, it could just be called Ubuntu 5.10.
Oolite: Elite-like game. For Mac, Linux and Windows
The only issue left is that it did not recognise the wireless card I have installed.. so I can't put it on the network yet.
;^).
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I installed Ubuntu on an old laptop a few months ago, and also ran into trouble with the wireless card. Mine was a linksys, and they didn't have a driver for Linux. I was able to use the Windows driver on Ubuntu using NdisWrapper. Assuming you are having similar driver trouble, this may work for you too.
IIRC, NdisWrapper was on the install cd (you might have to apt-get or synaptic it to get it on your HD), so you shouldn't have to download it (which is good, since your card doesn't work yet
Here's a link to the project...
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
Here's the install instructions on the wiki...
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/inde
You'll also need the Windows driver for you card. You can get it off of the CD that came with it, or they are usually available from the manufacturer's website.
Good luck,
-m
First Acneous Aardvark .etc.
then Breezy Badger
Carnivorous Caterpillar
Dapper Dog (or Dudley Do-Right?)
Enigmatic Elephant
Fantasy Fox
Giggling Giraffe
*Then* Hoary Hedgehog
A goal is a dream with a deadline
Sadly, it is useless for most of Asia because CJK (Chinese Japanese Korean) input is broken:
m /+bug/2565
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+sources/sci
The fonts are there, the localization strings are there, the keyboard LAYOUTS are there but the input server to transform romanized input (for example) to the Asian characters is not working. Particularly frustrating because Ubuntu has decided on not making it a core part (as it is in SuSE or RedHat) of the distro...
I very much agree with this. Let me tell you why.
I'm not a linux fan. At all. I know the rest of you are and that's fine - but I like and use Windows XP. Linux is simply just not for me.
That said, my wife got a Ubuntu disc (live and install duo) at her university and brought it home.
We were having some dificulty on a system and as a rescue disc, we fired up Ubuntu the live CD.
We were impressed. My wife ran it as her OS for a few months, but ultimately relented and switched back to windows. We simply run and play too many windows games for linux to be a real solution for us.
We have installed it on an older laptop and have been impressed with it. We have passed on the discs to relatives who have difficulty retrieving files or who have "lost" their Windows XP install codes.
So, coming from somone who really *doesn't like linux at all* - Ubuntu was easy to install, atractive, mostly easy to use and quite powerful out of the box with OpenOffice installed via default.
I still don't use linux on my machines as there are too many Windows game dev issues I deal with on a daily basis. But if game dev was not a part of my life, I might be tempted to try it.
So... hell yes - pay close attnetion to Ubuntu.
.Robert
I keep a Compaq Deskpro EN (1 GHz PIII, 512 MB, 20 GB HD) in the front of my shop as an open, public net device (well, with a donation jar on the SFF case ;) ). Two things I can tell you:
1. It runs quick.
2. It runs solid.
On any given day, I get a host of questions (From How did you make Windows look like that? To How much does it cost?) and I've sold quite a few of them because of it (six to be exact). Almost everyone that's played with it loves it. And no one has ever said, "It feels sluggish."
All that being said, I'm generally a Gentoo guy, but Ubuntu makes a great selling point for the newbie linux crowd (easy fellas, I'm not calling it a kiddie distro)-- easy install, simple (and timely) updates, fantastic device detection and a perfect mix of apps (even includes Krita w/ the Kubuntu desktop package). It's exactly what a novice PC user expects -- insert disk, reboot box, answer some basic questions and then use your computer.
In fact, I'm picking up another lot of these little Deskpro ENs to sit below my gaming stations. Next month, I'll be hosting Linux "classes" so people realize that Linux can be a viable alternative.
Sorry so long winded an answer for a simple question... but allow me to recap: Yes, a 1GHz PIII is more than enough muscle for 5.10.
#SickNotWeak
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 editions available:
Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)
Kubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)
Edubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)
Please download using Bittorrent if possible.
-- Eavy (: Linux Is Not UniX
(Un)official release song and dance here
(Warning: Flash animation)
Honestly, I agree with you as far as the PITA LTSP setup. Like I said somewhere once before, I've tried setting LTSP up several times in other environments, and it's a royal pain, chock full of inconvenient. :) The Ubuntu roll o fit's really nice, though, and hides all that crap. It literally took me about ten minutes (not counting the package downloading and installing that happens behind the scenes without user intervention) to get three machines up and running, one as a server and two as netboot clients. If you include the time it took to set up two VMWare virtual machines and install the Ubuntu server + one client (the third client was a physical machine booting from an Intel card), we're at about a half hour of sitting-in-front-of-the-computer to get three fully functional workstations. Additional machines just take an entry in dhcpd.conf, and that's only if you use dhcp "that way".
Anyway, I don't particularly care if it's LTSP or something else - this is easy to set up and easy to maintain so far, and it coincidentally uses LTSP for its organization.
As far as NFS, well, it's about the only network file system that can be used as a network root with Linux, right? I guess with the advent of initrds (not exactly new tech, but really just recently getting useful) I guess anything could be used - but a properly-tuned NFS server is pretty nice. Sure, I use CIFS a lot now, but that's mostly because I like the mapping control I can exert through samba, not because of any real performance gain. NFSv3 has "real" locks and nearly everythign supports it. NFSv4 is pretty close to stably replacing v3 now, and it uses stateful connections - which gets rid of several of the problems people had with UDP-based NFS implementations (and gets rid of the need to run a million daemons).
My email address is in there for any additions and updates.
http://rocknerd.co.uk
The obvious question of the grand(grand?)prent post as to why Ubuntu is so great, is not an easy one to explain, I guess one just has to try it. I have used Mandriva, SuSE, Fedora, Gentoo (waited 2 days for it to install!) Lycoris (before it was bought by Mandriva) and finally settled with Ubuntu. I guess things just seemed to work right out of the box or perhaps I like the openess and the message behind Ubuntu, or maybe both...
You will have to do more research for yourself, however from having looked at educational distributions in the past, the primary goal is to set up a thin client based infrastructure that allows the school to deploy a large number of very low cost workstations, often without hard drives, that the students will use as their desktop. Memory, video card, sound card, keyboard, mouse, display and case. Possibly a CD and or floppy drive, though it would be unlikely to include a cdr/cdrw drive. Possibly a USB port, possibly not.
This is then supported by one or two farily large servers that most of the applications are actually run on or at least from.
Advantages for the school include the possiblity that they can just strip out the hard drives from systems that won't support the latest distribution of Windows, and effectively have zero or very low cost per workstation to move to Linux. A centralized account management structure where the school can insure that sutdents are only maintaining school related work in their storage folders, while providing an infrastructure that is disaster tolerant if they have implemented periodic backups of that online storage. If a vandal destroys a workstation you are not spending a day or more replacing it, updating all of the software with the current patches, etc, you simply replace it with an off the shelf spare, or pick up a bare bones system and put the appropriate network boot firmware on a network card if the bios does not already support booting off the network.
User interface is usually either a X windows desktop, or possibly a vnc or other thin client desktop. It can even be rdesktop if you insist upon using a windows platform for some reason.
All that said, I do not know what of it is included in Edubuntu.
-Rusty
You never know...