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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?
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.
Nothing really special about it when compared to Debian except that it seems to form a more focused and complete desktop installation. I must admit though, whenever I have installed it it's been perfect for use as a desktop machine for just browsing the web/checking email etc. Wouldn't install it for development though. On the subject of the install it's just a (very very) slightly streamlined version of the stock Debian NCURSES installer.
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!Neither. The amazing thing about Ubuntu is that stuff just works, usually with little to no wankery.
Stating on Slashdot that I like cheese since 1997.
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
It should be noted that "stuff" includes a nice, functional desktop with programs and associations and sound and a whole bunch of "just use it" kind of feel. On most hardware, it's really impressive how well it manages to just make everything work - especially when one's used to "the old days" (I first installed Slackware circa 1995 - things like X and sound didn't really "just work"). Even today, though, it does a better job of post-install stuff working on more machines than Windows, IMHO.
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?
If you've used Debian, you'll understand why we like apt-get and synaptic. If you haven't, I say try it out for a week, and see if you go back.
I originally arrived at the Ubuntu party back when "Warty Warthog" was the tune everyone danced to. I stepped in fresh from the Suse 9.0 party after being thrown out by bad Gnome support.
When I arrived (after installing WW on a 3rd partition), I was greeted by a desktop that had all the gnome/mac-ish looking fonts and everything seemed to be just SIMPLE. No need to wade through 2000 menus to figure what is already installed. And no more YAST.
Configuring the Synaptic thingy was easier this time than any previous experiences getting yast or yum/rpm to download packages and their dependencies. The closest I got to that on Suse was red-carpet/rug.
Ignoring all the hype (as hard as it is), I use Ubuntu because it works (like everyone else says).
I currently use Ubuntu "Hoary" as my main OS in daily work. I've been using it since the day it released. To upgrade I opened synaptic, changed the repository distribution labels from warty to hoary, hit save, hit the reload button, then click "mark all upgrades". After applying the selection, I switched workspace and went back to what I was doing before.
I would say that ubuntu is perfect for developing, it leaves all the stupid configuring to the people who spend their life doing it and let us ordinary programmers not care about things those insignifaicant things. Since it commesout so often it's very seldom that you don't have an development library that you need, it somehow always seems to make it into the next version at just exatcly the right time.
Now Ubunutu isn't very good on installing games, if you want to do that go with Gentoo which IMHO actally has the best installation procedures for commercial games (demos).
- Ubuntu is nice due it's quick install.
- Features also tend to work immidately: I spent three months trying to get a TV tuner working in various Redhat/Fedora Core releases and it never worked properly.
- The ubuntuguide is another great plus: it is possible to know very little about setting up a linux box, and get Ubuntu doing what you want it to quickly.
- Debian package management (no more difficult then gentoo package management, without having to wait for it to compile)
- 1 install CD instead of 3 to 6
- A great community that makes this a distro one that anyone can eisily download, install, and set up; it is ideal for people who want to migrate, or even for more experenced people who don't want to spend 65% of their time maintaining the computer and the rest actually using it for work or play or whatever.
Now, if they had mplayer packaged such that it installed, and played DVDs correctly without as much effort (i.e. getting the source from the developers and manually compiling it, not that this is difficult, but it should be unneccessary), I would be happier.
Think for yourself. Question Authority.
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?
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.
It seems to me that you're not familiar with Debian. (?) Debian is a Linux distro which has often been praised for having very good software package tools, ie. tools you use to install software packages. Debian's APT was the first really good package tool, which is nowadays mimicked by eg. Fedora's Yum, but APT is still very popular and holds it's own against the alternatives. (APT is also available for Fedora, which IMO proves it's worth and popularity.)
The long standing problem with Debian, however, has been a very slow release cycle for the stable branch, meaning that if you want to use the newest and coolest software, you need to use the testing or the unstable branch. Many users are reluctant to use these branches, because you can easily break your system by installing software versions that do not mix together well. Eg. installing a new version of a library (DLL) might break several software packages dependant on an earlier version of that library.
Ubuntu leverages all the benefits of APT, but eliminates the problem with long release cycles by having two releases per year, enabling you to use the newest and hottest versions of all your favourite software. You don't need to wait for a new version to come out for longer than six months. This only in the rare case that the new version is released just after the latest Ubuntu release.
Upgrading to the newest version of Ubuntu is also quite easy. You edit a config file to refer to the newest release, issue the commands apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade and Bob's your uncle! Editing a config file might not be everybody's cup of tea, but I think there might bee GUI tools for this. I don't know, because I have no problems with config files.
Lemon curry???
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
::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 thing I love about Ubuntu (actually Kubuntu; I much prefer KDE) is that it takes this great framework provided by Debian and actually uses it. That is, for example, when you plug in a USB storage device, you don't worry about where it's going to show up in /dev or where to mount it or what groups you need to be in in order to access it. It Just Works, with the file manager opening up a window on you desktop showing the contents of the drive. Debian has all the necessary bits to do things like this, too, but none if it Just Works by default.
It's just a really really well integrated system that works well. Somebody (Tim O'Reilley?) said that MacOS X made computing fun again. To me, (K)Ubuntu makes computing fun again.
noah
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
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
Certain packages can only be distributed in source code form for licencing reasons; mplayer is one of them {LAME and PINE also spring to mind}. Though it should be possible to build a deb file so as to include dependencies for the compilation environment itself and everything that mplayer depends upon {so the compilation is certain to proceed cleanly}; put the source code somewhere sane; and perform the actual compilation step from within the post-install script.
This would finally make compiling from source as easy as installing a binary package.
Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
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...
Check out Automatix (Automated GUI installation script) posted on the EasyUbuntu forum. It installs all the nice-to-have extra software automatically. It's been updated to this release, and the number of posts has increased dramatically since I downloaded it this morning!! A list of what it does (copied from the post): Capabilities: 1) Installs multimedia codecs 2) Installs all Firefox plugins (java, flash, etc) (except Adobe reader and mplayer) 3) Modifies ALSA, OSS and ESD confs for duplex sound (solves most audio related probs on Ubuntu) 4) Adds midi capability to your Ubuntu box (NEW) 5) Installs RAR and ACE archive support 6) Installs skype 7) Installs Acrobat reader 7 and firefox plugin for the same. 8) Installs Gnomebaker (CD/DVD burning s/w for GNOME) 9) Installs gftp (FTP client for GNOME with ssh capability) 10) Configures Ctrl-Alt-Del to start up Gnome System Monitor (aka Windows) 11) Disables powernowd on laptops when they are plugged in 12) Installs DC++ and Limewire (file sharing progs) 13) Installs multimedia editors (Audacity (audio), Kino (video), EasyTag (ID3)) 14) Installs CD (goobox) and DVD (dvdrip) rippers 15) Installs Mplayer and mplayerplug-in version 3.05 for Firefox 16) Installs totem-xine, VLC and Beep Media Player (with docklet) 17) Installs Opera Browser 18) Installs Debian Menu (shows all installed applications) 19) Installs Bittornado and Azureus (Bittorrent clients) 20) Installs Avidemux 21) Enables Prelinking 22) Enables Numlock on (turns numlock on Gnome startup) 23) Installs Programming Tools (Anjuta (C/C++ IDE), Bluefish (HTML editor) and Screem (Web Development Env.)) 24) Gamepads (Makes USB gamepads work) 25) Totem and Mozplugger (Totem embedded with mozplugger) 26) GnomePPP (Graphical Dial up connection tool) (NEW)