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.

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Fast mirror at Indiana University

[cow ninja]

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

Go ahead, take our bandwidth :)

Re:Fast mirror at Indiana University

[didde]

Let's not forget The Pirate Bay, people. They've had this up since 03:00 UTC.

The .torrent is available here.

Re:Fast mirror at Indiana University

[Zonk (troll)]

Thanks for the info. The Swedish mirrors also appear to be working decently.

http://se.releases.ubuntu.com/7.04/

Also, here are the torrents:

http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.04/ubuntu-7.04-altern ate-amd64.iso.torrent
http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.04/ubuntu-7.04-altern ate-i386.iso.torrent
http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.04/ubuntu-7.04-deskto p-amd64.iso.torrent
http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.04/ubuntu-7.04-deskto p-i386.iso.torrent
http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.04/ubuntu-7.04-server -amd64.iso.torrent
http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.04/ubuntu-7.04-server -i386.iso.torrent
http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.04/ubuntu-7.04-server -sparc.iso.torrent

No PPC releases at the moment, though.

Re:Fast mirror at Indiana University

[mattnuzum]

Try the homepage now. We've simplified things and will update the mirror list frequently until the excitement dies down.

Please note that if you use Ubuntu now, you can update very easily, but don't use dist-upgrade. Instead:

Before you start

        * You can only directly upgrade to Ubuntu 7.04 ("Feisty Fawn") from Ubuntu 6.10 ("Edgy Eft") (see UpgradeNotes)
        * Be sure that you have all updates applied to Ubuntu 6.10 before you upgrade
        * The latest version of Update Manager (0.45.2) must be installed before you upgrade. Otherwise, you will receive an Authentication failed error. See [WWW] here for instructions how to check if you have the required version.

Note: If you have a version of Ubuntu which was released before Ubuntu 6.10, please see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Installation/UpgradeFromOld Version for information on how to upgrade.

Network upgrade for Ubuntu desktops (recommended)

You can easily upgrade over the network with the following procedure.

      1. Open System -> Administration -> Update Manager
      2. A button on the top of the window will appear, informing you of the availability of the new release
      3. Click Upgrade
      4. Follow the on-screen instructions

Re:Fast mirror at Indiana University

[Syzar]

Links for Kubuntu torrents:

http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/feisty/kubuntu- 7.04-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent
http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/feisty/kubuntu- 7.04-alternate-i386.iso.torrent
http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/feisty/kubuntu- 7.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent
http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/feisty/kubuntu- 7.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

Re:Fast mirror at Indiana University

[niteice]

Technically speaking, it's just the package updater (like Windows Update but less evil), which also is capable of updating the entire distro.

Re:Plesant Java Surprise?

[Kirth]

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.

Re:torrents

[0100010001010011]

And those torrent options are....

ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent
ubuntu-7.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent
ubuntu-7.04-server-i386.iso.torrent
ubuntu-7.04-server-amd64.iso.torrent