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Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Released
Lots of readers told us about the official release of Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn (screenshots here for Ubuntu and Kubuntu). Some readers report that the distribution servers are being hammered. Here is a review of Feisty Fawn. Reader LinuxScribe sends us to LinuxPlanet for the story on a pleasant Java surprise in the release.
Here is a quick mirror: (ftp also works) http://ftp.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/ 7.04/ maintained by http://www.ussg.iu.edu
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Go ahead, take our bandwidth
Don't bother with the official sites - I think they must be running Ubuntu Sluggish Slug Server Edition! Kidding aside, there are a myriad of torrent options.
I have just update my 6.10 vmware image running on my win xp to 7.04. Runs great. If you want to try to upgrade from 6.10 to 7.04 open a terminal and enter :-D
gksu "update-manager -c -d" and follow instructions. As always, back up your computer fist.
They bundled it. Except on 64bit machines, where it still does not work correctly and still does not have a browser plugin; because the bug-report for this is only two years old.
"The more prohibitions there are, The poorer the people will be" -- Lao Tse
It's already been announced as Gutsy Gibbon.
"Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses." - Arthur C. Clarke.
Hmm.. google impaired:
s temHowtoa p
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedFilesy
http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/net/libnss-ldap
http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/admin/libpam-ld
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpSamba
My Babylon
Based on the review this is worth upgrading to - but what are the system requirements like? 6.06 is just usable on my 196 meg RAM laptop, will this push it over the edge?
Incidentally, how come SAMBA isn't included by default? This bit me recently when trying to move files between 2 networked (but not on the internet) computers.
I quit!
But netbeans is still poo.
The release was officially announced on the mailing list moments ago. Here is the link:
/ 2007-April/000102.html
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce
I think it is. Linux geeks have a powerful love for Ubuntu (I know, being one myself). Personally, i think ubuntu is the best shot Linux has at the desktop market in any way. It's easier to set up and run that any windows and doesn't lack any features. As long as you're willing to actually USE the internet and look for answers to your questions, you're in luck. And to be fair, technical support in ubuntu (at the publuc forums) is vastly superior to windows tech support (I admin both OS's and linux is easier to get help with by far). So there's a reason for the ubuntu love, certainly. But with Vista just out, any new linux dostro story is bound to spark flames.
If you download the Alternate Install CD, you can choose where to install grub. Install it to a floppy or usb drive and you can use that file with the windows boot loader. This way if you want to remove the Ubuntu partitions in the future you won't have to worry about fixing the boot loader. It's been a while since I've done this, but this looks about right: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=56723
The only problem I can forsee is setting up MythTV to work with my Radeon AIW. Either way it should make for a fun weekend project!
If by "fun weekend project," you mean "experience that will make you curse computers, question your own sanity, and shake your fist at God for not having struck you down with a well-placed lightning bolt before you set forth on this foolhardy endeavor," then yeah, sure, it might be a fun weekend project.
But seriously, if you want MythTV to work, and work well, get hardware that's well supported. Hauppauge PVR-x50 MPEG-2 encoder cards and Bt848 framebuffer cards [1] are your friends; all others your enemy. Low-end NVidia cards with S-Video out are also probably the best way to avoid wanting to kick the computer.
Unless you put a very, very low value on your time, the cost of the hardware will be insignificant compared to the effort involved in getting poorly-supported gear working with MythTV. I've been down that road. Six weeks worth of work later, I just tossed it all into the parts bin and went out and bought a PVR-150, a Streamzap, and a cheap eVGA NVidia card with S-Video out that was listed as being on the "A" list for Knoppmyth compatibility. With that, it was a weekend project.
[1] The HDHomeRun is pretty slick, too, if you want HD. It's the most painless way to get dual HD tuners.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
You can just "upgrade" by changing a word in a config file somewhere, there's no reinstallation involved; You'll just be bumped with a few programs to download and you're done, there's little reason *not* to.
Try disabling USB-Legacy Support (boot from USB, etc.)- worked wonders for me, seems to be a BIOS bug on some boards.
So far all the ATI cards upto and including the r300 chipsets, the nvidia cards now supported by the nouveau project (which is very recent) include up to the geforce 8800 (IIRC). You can see the details at free3d.org
The latest Intel G965 chipsets also include an integrated video chip GMA X3000 which is apparently beefy enough to do stuff like Compiz/Bery, Tuxracer just fine.
anything that forces hardware vendors to support Linux on more desktops is more likely to lead to more adequate drivers. That's verifiably an unsupported idea. The Linux-only market is a tiny fraction of the Windows market and its a waste of ATI/Nvidia's time to put enough engineers on it. That's why their proprietary drivers suck and why the nouveau guys were irritated enough to start trying to write one themselves. Ubuntu is relieving any pressure there might be on these manufacturers and thus actually penalising manufacturers like Intel who have taken the risk of opening up their specs completely.
Don't people understand that when you put the .torrent file on the same server as the iso's if one is being hammered the other get's killed too.
:(
.torrent file.
K XV
So....your mirrors are breaking. Yea! Bittorrent saves the day! Lets put the torrent file on the SAME SERVER that's currently melting down. That will fix it.
So your torrent servers don't get killed post the Magnet URI so that people can join the torrent independent of the accessibility of the
Here is the Ubuntu 7.04 i386 desktop
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:DMDDBZV4X4NWSEHVEBBZHSMFY4GHD
Note Slashdot has a problem with Magnet URI's there is NO space between the last K and XV
They didn't bundle it. RTFM.
You must "apt-get install" it
The improved wireless support comes from network-manager not avahi, avahi is a service for automatically discovering network services on your local network.
Tomboy and f-spot at least, were included in Ubuntu 6.10.
There are *lots* of small incremental improvements in Ubuntu, that's the benefit of 6 month release plan. Some of them are detailed here: http://philbull.livejournal.com/34930.html There are also a list of improvements from Gnome 2.18 here: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.18/notes/en/
I imagine the new kernel release adds support for new hardware and things too.
Especially, note that 6.06 cannot be directly upgraded to 7.04, you need to go to 6.10 first*. You might be quicker doing a backup and reinstalling.
* At least with the (recommended) automatic tool. If you know what you are doing, you can likely upgrade directly with the manual tools. You will need some knowledge though. (aptitude dist-upgrade, dpkg --force-things, and apt-get -f install are your friends. It won't be pretty)
"When I first heard Daydream Nation it quite frankly scared the living shit out of me." -- Matthew Stearns
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/7.04/re lease/xubuntu-7.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent - Desktop CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computerse lease/xubuntu-7.04-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent - Alternate install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computerse lease/xubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent - Desktop CD for PC (Intel x86) computerse lease/xubuntu-7.04-alternate-i386.iso.torrent - Alternate install CD for PC (Intel x86) computers
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/7.04/r
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/7.04/r
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/7.04/r
On windows you're likely running the Sun Java Virtual Machine.
On Linux you may unknowingly be using the free Gnu implemenation of Java (gcj). Install the Sun JVM and try running from that one instead.
In my experience the Sun JVM on Linux is better than the Sun JVM on windows, but the Sun JVM on windows is faster than gcj on Linux.
That said, I applaud the efforts by the gcj guys big time.
"If they have both, tell them we use Linux. And if they have that, tell them the computers are down." -Dave Chapelle
Um, in Ubuntu you're NOT always admin. There is no way to log in as root in Ubuntu. The first user you create gets sudo priveledges automatically, and the "root" account inherits the password of the first user account you create. From then on, any user you create does not have any escelated priveledges whatsoever. The idea behind this is that you use the first account you created to administer, therefore enforcing the idea that you should never log in as root or run anything unnecessary as root, and then you use your other accounts for normal work/play. The reason behind this is that novices are used to the idea of logging in under a seperate account to admin stuff, and so that other users do not have a method of doing any of this stuff, even accidentally.
Twinstiq, game news
Off the top of my head, it was something like:
Warty Warthog (4.10)
Hoary Hedgehog 5.04
Breezy Badger 5.10
Dapper Drake 6.06
Edgy Eft 6.10
Feisty Fawn 7.04
[Next: Gutsy Gibbon 7.10, though Glossy Gnu was considered]
Release dates are every 6 months, except in the case of Dapper Drake. Version numbers are Y.MM, so you can calculate back from today.
I am posting this from the same computer on which currently Ubuntu is installing. Beat that, windows!
Open Source Alternatives
If you go to http://ubuntuguide.org/ you can find a replacement for '/etc/apt/sources.list' which contains sources for all the non-free stuffs you'd want.
Great resource, I have it bookmarked.
David
Lets get the facts right, here. It's not a bug-report, it's an RFE, a Request for Enhancement.
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AND IT'S BLOODY FOUR YEARS OLD!!!
See for your self: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_i
To add insult to injury, when the status of this 'RFE' only very recently changed (January 16th 2007), IT WAS TARGETED FOR THE NEXT RELEASE. In other words it'll be another 18 months.
And the first person who tells me I should use a 32-bit browser anyway, I'm going to strangle with Java-code.
Excuse me for losing my cool there, I've been waiting for it to magically apear in every point release of V5 and then in Java 6. Even if this is 'non-trivial', Sun should get their collective heads out of their assess and just do it. There's no telling how many people and projects are being held up by this.
If you have a few minutes, please get an account at SDN and vote for this particular RFE. I'd like the vote to go up to about a thousand at least. Perhaps that'll get them out of snooze-mode.
Karma? What's that again?
The PS3 needs an OpenGL library that either runs on the Cell SPE(s), or calls functions on the RSX. So far, Sony has locked out the RSX, and I doubt they'll let (unlicensed) Linux apps compete with their licensed products by tapping the RSX (which is unique to PS3, and 9x as fast as the Cell). So really what's needed is OpenGL running on SPEs.
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make install -not war
At present Ubuntu is encouraging people to ignore the problem of video-driver support, to purchase broken crap from nvidia and to penalise Intel by not selecting their boards and integrated cards.
That's so not true
"When I first heard Daydream Nation it quite frankly scared the living shit out of me." -- Matthew Stearns
iPod: works out of the boxt s/iTunesMusicStore
DigiCam: the very vast majority works out of the box (and simpler than Windows, plugging it in opens a management app)
iTunes: complain to Apple and/or help her a bit: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedForma
Multimedia: 7.04 will prompt you and offer to install support for proprietary codecs. DVD needs a tiny bit of help: http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/
"When I first heard Daydream Nation it quite frankly scared the living shit out of me." -- Matthew Stearns