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Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Beta Released

Posted by Zonk on from the enjoy-your-irritable-deer dept.

vivaoporto writes "The Beta version of the popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu 7.04, was released today. Codenamed Feisty Fawn, the CD images can be downloaded from the Canonical Servers, and the final version is due to be released next month. Get it while it's hot! Read more about it on the official wiki."

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  1. Re:new name, please! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    elide v.t. omit (vowel or syllable) in pronunciation. [L elido elis- crush out]

    Fuller definition (notice that the third definition is for use in a grammatical context):

    {dag}1. trans. To destroy, annihilate (the force of evidence). Obs. 1593 HOOKER Eccl. Pol. IV. iv, The force and strength of their arguments is elided. 1637 GILLESPIE Eng. Pop. Cerem. III. vii. 117 Which doth elude and elide all that which they alleadge. 1688 Ess. Magistracy in Harl. Misc. I. 9 They transfer a necessity of eliding them by clearer evidences.

    b. Law, esp. Sc. To annul, do away with, quash, rebut. [So elidere in Roman Law.] 1597 Acts Jas. VI (1816) 126 They wald haue elidit and stayit the samyn to haue bene put to ony probatioun. 1609 SKENE Reg. Maj. 115 He may..take away, elid, and exclude his [the persewer's] action, clame, and petition. 1754 ERSKINE Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 109 The concurring testimony of the husband and wife..is sufficient to elide this legal presumption. 1828 SCOTT Hrt. Midl. xii, Whilk uncertainty is sufficient to elide the conclusions of the libel. 1880 MUIRHEAD Gaius IV. 124 He may..elide the exception.

    2. To strike out, suppress, pass over in silence. 1847 GROTE Greece II. xxx. IV. 153 Many of them made the still greater historical mistake of eliding these last four years altogether. 1851 SIR F. PALGRAVE Norm. & Eng. I. 750 Gibbon and Sismondi have elided these monarchs. 1870 BOWEN Logic (ed. 2) 133 The predesignations of quantity..belonging to the Predicate are usually elided in expression.

    3. Gram. To omit (a vowel, or syllable) in pronunciation. Hence e{sm}lided ppl. a. 1796 Brit. Crit. (T.), The consonant belonging to the elided syllable. 1851 SIR F. PALGRAVE Norm. & Eng. I. 47 Some sounds elided, others exaggerated. 1867 A. J. ELLIS E.E. Pronunc. I. iv. 342 It must remain an undecided question whether Chaucer would or would not have elided the vowel.

    Perhaps you meant 'omit the noun'?
  2. Re:Damnit... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what? couldn't you find more filthy fags? your faggot os is for faggots. fucking filthy dick smoking cock suckers. linux users are all faggots smoking on the big bone. i'd shit on you guys but you'd like it too much.

  3. Re:download speeds... by jorgepblank · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Haha, what makes you think 'faggots' don't use windows? Or Mac?

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  4. Re:still a long way to go by FishWithAHammer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Flamebait? Jesus, the slashbots are out in force today.

    I'm an open-source contributor. I run a Linux network. I use Kubuntu. That doesn't change its flaws, you fucking moron mods.

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