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Edgy Eft Knot 2 Released
Klaidas writes "The Ubuntu project has released a second Knot CD — an alpha version of Edgy Eft. Notable new features include a new 2.6.17 kernel, Gnome 2.16 beta 2, Firefox 2.0b1, OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 and much more. It is availible for download on Ubuntu's image server. The final stable version is still slated for release in October 2006."
"Nazi D"? Godwin'd before it even started.
Edgy Eft? FFS. That's even worse than Breezy Badger. What's that supposed to tell me or any other random person about what I'm downloading?
Who comes up with these names?
Woo, yeah, sweet, Edgy Eft! I've been waiting for years for that, whatever it is!
Knot, yeah, the Knot edition of Edgy Eft, woooogaaawoooo! Most sweet and tasty, and VERSION TWO to boot! How good is this?
Has anyone else here just cum all over their keyboard in excitement?
Really! knot.
Ubuntu is now the leading choice for linux by quite a margin. Us poor gentoo users languish in 10th place :(
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Today is the 2nd of September.
... to beta ... to release. Isn't that a bit optimistic? Particularly for a release that is developer driven and packed with candy.
Edgy Eft is scheduled for release "in October 2006".
That's about 60 days maximum to go from a 2nd alpha
>Us poor gentoo users languish in 10th place :(
You can just upgrade to Ubuntu and escape poverty then.
With Dapper, "flight" made a lot of sense...is this the equivalent of "flight" for eft? If so, why "knot"?
it is called what it is..
/ 2006-April/000064.html
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce
"Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience."
I thought that made it a rc (http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/01/21 29200)
Isn't page rank on distrowatch based on clicks to the various distros pages on that site, rather than what distro you're actually using?
...yeah, so what it actually means is that, because it's well known and at the top of the list, Ubuntu is usually the first page clicked. This records one hit, and then no other hits are recorded for that IP for the rest of the day.
"The Page Hit Ranking statistics have attracted plenty of attention and feedback. Originally, each distribution-specific page was pure HTML with a third-party counter at the bottom to monitor interest of visitors. Later the pages were transformed into plain text files with PHP generating all the HTML code, but the original counter remained unchanged. In May 2004 the site switched from publicly viewable third-party counters to internal counters. This was prompted by a continuous abuse of the counters by a handful of undisciplined individuals who had confused DistroWatch with a voting station. The counters are no longer displayed on the individual distributions pages, but all visits (on the main site, as well as on mirrors) are logged. Only one hit per IP address per day is counted."
So it doesn't really say whether it is the most commonly used distribution, merely that it gets the most clicks to its page within distrowatch.
Other distributions like Fedora, Mandriva, etc. have the feature of installing both 32 and 64 bit libraries, so you can compile for either one using your compiler -m switch. Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) has a lot of these dual libraries missing (like the 32-bit libXcursor.so that prevents google-earth from running on Dapper64, or even wrongly linked, like the /usr/lib32/libGLU.so linking to a 64 bit version. They need to fix this in order to appeal to the cutting edge users.
Firefox 2.0 BETA, gaim 2.0 BETA, OpenOffice 2.0, GNOME 2.16, Kernel 2.6.17, Python 2.5, F-Spot (with support for Flickr, a 2.0 Application)..
See, it's all about 2.0 now! join the bandwagon!
Strange, doesn't come with Ruby on Rails..
While the whole world seems to be very impressed with Ubuntu and its derivatives, I am still to be impressed after having tried it for about three weeks. I will however give credit where it is due. For one, package management seems to be very much improved.
What still bothers me is the fact that in Ubuntu's GNOME file selector interface, I cannot simply paste a URL and have the program open the referenced document. It is also incredibly ugly for me...why? In KDE, this is possible but the fonts and general look are very ugly and are already starting to look ancient.
Multimedia on the web is still a big hassle. Even for sites that offer RealPlayer streams, GNOME's RealPlayer, even if installed cannot grab the stream by default!
The help system is still very wanting. Some have even told me it does not exist. Assumptions are made that everyone can go online and get the neccessary help. But what happens when you are on the road with no internet connection? Windows beat Linux on this.
Before I get modded down for what some will call trolls, I will stop here but I agree that Ubuntu and Linux still have a long long way to impress folks like me.
Ubuntu, Knot, Edgy Eft - it's like kids making "language" of their own.
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personally i use Slackware for my KDE desktop and Debian Testing (etch) for my Gnome desktop, but i am glad for Ubuntu becoming popular and winning over windows users over to the Linux side of computing...
my only fear is about the way ubuntu implements sudo and that first user account having so much privileges and what is confusing is the password for that first user is used for administration/root access, i noticed ubuntu will remember the password for convenience, i know to disable these things but a new user wont, and i fear someday a clever evil clown genius will figure out a way to exploit this to mount an attack on ubuntu and it gets in the press that Linux is as vulnerable as windows.
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Well, it will get better.
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What Ubuntu lacks is a good 64bit version./ 2006-April/000064.html But it is no longer included. The reason? Ubuntu developers are waiting on Debian to develop it.
One of the advantages we are told of Ubuntu is that we don't have to wait on the long Debian development cycle. While that sounds good to the average i386 Ubuntu user. The amd64 Ubuntu user still has to wait on Debian. The reason I say this? In one word Multiarch.
Multiarch was supposed to make it into Edgy. It was mentioned in the announcement by Mr Shuttleworth
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce
Its like 64bit users are second class citizens. No multiarch while distro's like SuSE, Fedora, Gento and others are already multiarch. No Wine, a 64bit firefox where plugins dont work, and other 32bit programs that must be manually added along with their lib's.
All the while eye candy is added to the 32bit version. If it wasn't for the community and people there I would have left long ago. Its sad that people with 64bit systems are told to install the 32bit version because things are missing.
I trust Microsoft as far as I could comfortably spit a dead rat
I welcome our Ubuntu overlords. But seriously. As far as something that can allow the average Windows user to get a taste, or even build experience in using the Linux OS, this is the best way to go.
For one, you can use the live CD to figure out how to get Linux to do everything you want, without making major changes in your existing setup.
With luck (and perhaps a determined developer base), by the time Vista shows up to ream all of us Windows users in the ass, Ubuntu (and subsequent imitators) will be "general public" ready, so we at least have some options.
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
Americans pronouce it like the Germans did, with the "a" as in "Vater". "Gnat-see" would be more like "Naezi" (with an a-umlaut) but even that's not quite the same thing; you'd sound like a South African.
As I mentioned here, I like SUSE (the only distro that worked 100% on my laptop and has WPA-PSK) and MEPIS (which used to be Debian-based and is now Ubuntu-based, but is much nicer than either IMHO...pity about WPA-PSK not working out of the box). I prefer KDE to Gnome, especially after tweaking the fonts a bit. I don't really understand Ubuntu's popularity.
It got better!
The official releases are also numbered by date (Year.Month) so you could refer to Breezy Bagder as 5.10 (October 2005) and Dapper Drake as 6.06 (June 2006). I really don't see the big deal, if the name is hard to remember/prounce, a pair of numbers should be okay.
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From Wiki:
4.10 October 20, 2004[10] Warty Warthog
5.04 April 8, 2005 Hoary Hedgehog
5.10 October 13, 2005 Breezy Badger
6.06 June 1, 2006[11] Dapper Drake
6.10 October 26, 2006 Edgy Eft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(Linux_distri
I download all the Ubuntus and try them on my HP dv5000 (I know; not a fantastic machine by any means). I'll ditch Windows when it supports Sleep mode and WiFi out of the box, or with an effort comparable to that of installing drivers on Windows. The LiveCD installer is a good idea, in every way, except it makes the boot look really slow. It's great to be able to "test drive" it:)
Well, lookie here. Linux users crying because there's no support from the major software developers...and then when a distro comes around that just might have some leverage in the situation, you shoot it down because it's getting too popular! Wah wah.
I even get how a bloke might have to change a tyre on his lorry, maybe open the bonnet and fiddle with the carburettor to get the thing working, so he can pop over to some bird's flat to knock her up. Then he could find he's required to step outside so he can put a flaming fag between his lips and suck on it... because of the Anti-Smoking Nazis (pronounced either way).
Now, can you explain 'leftenant'?
But this is what got my attention:
Ever since Windows 95 and the window floating in the clouds, with the pulsating blue bar across the bottom of the screen, the conventional wisdom has been that users are 'scared' by words during the boot. Anyone suffering from logophobia needs to seek professional help, not have enablers writing software for them.I am reassured by those text messages, and should one of them fail, I damnwell want to know which one it was. Of course, that might just be because I'll do something about it, rather than freak out about the computer being borked.
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SVM, ERGO MONSTRO.
Not say it it will be, but lets suppose it becomes THE most popular out there by such a margin it leaves everyone else in the dust, including debian..
Since its based on debian, what happens then?
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Wanted to see what the hype was all about. So I grabbed the Ubunto DD live CD ISO, burned it, and played for a bit.
I grabbed my external USB 40gb drive, popped it in, and installed Ubunto to the USB drive.
Worked perfect, right out of the box, on my Inspiron 9300. Spent most of the afternoon playing with it.
Not bad, not bad at all.
Interesting how the Slashdot editors judge an alpha release of Ubuntu worthy of a front page story, whereas the broken-X-when-updating fiasco of a couple of weeks back was conspicuous by it's absence.
Very interesting indeed..
Alex, who posts as "tereshchenko" and has a website named "www.fxfp.com" is criticising an african distro for having an african name (ubuntu) and for using proper english (a knot of efts) because they are using funny words?
Reality indeed defies parody.
Has anyone sucessfully installed Ubuntu on a motherboard with this chipset? AFAIK I believe this is caused quote:
"due to the Intel P965 chipset has no more integrated IDE channel, thus the motherboard usually has an additional chip onboard for an IDE channel. In the current Gigabyte (I got one of them) and ASUS (think they have it too) this is a JMicron JMB363. Until very recently the kernel had a bug inside that made it unable to access the IDE/PATA channel. "
I put together page here to document the issue. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Core_2_Duo_Support
I would just like to state for the record that I have google-earth running just fine on my Dapper AMD64 system. It installed and works like a charm.
Its true, didn't you get the free CD's? Mark is now shipping them with a free $10 bill in each case. That's why its the number 1 distro by distrowatch.
Heaven forbid Ubuntu continue to provide a stable release with a new kernel, new gnome, new X11, new composite support, new accessibility support, new artwork, new bootup and new shutdown. With great support forums, free CD's, and a great testing and user base I hate the way they do buisness.
Can I upgrade from my dapper to this with apt-get without having to do a reinstall? Thanks.
Unfortunately, the update feature seems to turned off on this release. Grrr...
Especially those "progress" bars that don't actually show any progress; they just cycle endlessly. How do you actually know that it's loading?
A simple explanation of WHAT the damn thing is would have been nice. I even had some context, as I'm running Dapper, and had no clue. And what the hell is an 'Eft'? All I get is 'Electronic Funds Transfer.'
Hoary Hedgehog, no doubt inspired by Ron Jeremy. Or was it Whorey Hedgehog?
Wouldn't the Gnome version be Gnot?
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