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Ubuntu 8.04 Released
Nate2 writes "The Hardy Heron has taken flight: it's the second LTS (Long Term Support) release of the world's most popular distro. New features include the Wubi Windows installer and Firefox 3 beta 5. Grab a copy here, and check out Linux Format's overview of the release."
The server was overloaded; it's back up now, but in case it becomes unstable again... Cached lists of mirrors (for all versions):
* http://www.ubuntu.com.nyud.net/getubuntu/downloadmirrors
* http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubuntu.com%2Fgetubuntu%2Fdownloadmirrors
Torrent for 8.04 desktop version i386 ISO:
* http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent
* http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4153415/Ubuntu_8.04_Hardy_Heron_-_Desktop_i386.4153415.TPB.torrent
(Piratebay mirror because official tracker is unstable)
Direct links to 8.04 desktop version i386 ISOs:
* http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso
* http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/ubuntu-releases/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso
* http://mirrors.ccs.neu.edu/releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso
* http://mirrors.rit.edu/ubuntu-releases/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso
* http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu/ubuntu-releases/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso
* http://ubuntu.osuosl.org/releases/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso
* http://banner.uits.indiana.edu/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso
* http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/CDs/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso
Don't forget Kubuntu!
There are some of us who don't (or kan't) run Gnome...
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Are you using the torrents?
ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/hardy/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent i386
ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/hardy/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent AMD64
ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/kubuntu/8.04/kubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent Kubuntu x86
ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/kubuntu/8.04/kubuntu-8.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent Kubuntu AMD64
"I think an etch-a-sketch with an ethernet port would beat IE7 in web standards compliance."
AFAIK, since this is a LTS (Long Term Support) release, they went with the beta Firefox so there wouldn't be major shocks when Mozilla stopped updating 2.x and Ubuntu updated everyone to 3.
"I think an etch-a-sketch with an ethernet port would beat IE7 in web standards compliance."
The Boston University Linux Users Group is providing a .torrent-only mirror that should be able to be easily reached regardless of traffic. It's often difficult to fight through the hordes around the other servers just to get a torrent file, so we felt this would be convenient. We also have a copy of the MD5SUMS if you need it.
ftp://lug.bu.edu/pub/distro/ubuntu/
Contains the alternate, desktop, and server torrents for both i386 and amd64.
Hope this helps.
http://193.147.168.122/ubuntu/
Please, always check MD5SUMS
Ubuntu releases based on a schedule (1 major release every 6 months, 1 release with long term support every 2 years), not when software is completely "ready". The merits of this can be argued by better geeks than I (I'll continue to use 7.10 on my desktop for a month, but 8.04 is going on my lappy pronto).
If you need completely stable software you should use another distro (Debian comes to mind) or wait a month or two.
wasn't slashdot this time, the things just wildly popular.
Well more than curious. It looks pretty slick.
And I am really not asking to be flamed here, but can someone tell me why I might want to move from Windows to Ubuntu? Either for home (World of Warcraft has to run on it) or from work?
(Puts on asbestos boxers)
Guns are for wimps... Use a crossbow.. this way you can pin them to their chair when you go postal.
NTFS read/write access has stable for a long time. No need for FAT32.
You don't need an external harddisk or usb-stick. Ubuntu won't disturb Windows.
Just download, burn and boot the live cd, then click the install icon. Ubuntu will guide you smoothly into making some space and dual-booting.
Don't Panic
Firefox 2 is in the software repository, so it's easy to install. Look either in Synaptic or in add/remove programs.
The easiest way would probably be to use Wubi, which installs the ubuntu system as an application inside your Windows install (or something like that, haven't tried it myself as I don't have Windows installed).
If you choose to install ubuntu on another drive and dual boot your ubuntu install should be perfectly capable at reading your NTFS partitions (helped a friend back up his stufs from a borked XP install just last weekend, worked great), I'm not sure about writing to NTFS partitions though, but it might work.
I never apologize. I'm sorry, but that's just the way I am.
yes, you just need to set the CD up as a repository in the atp sources list. http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#Adding_a_CD-ROM_or_DVD_repository
Nah it's storing *something* but it seems to be the password in hex form which it's then applying as though it were ASCII or latin1 or whatever they use for passphrases.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
I upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04;
I like the new compiz-fusion plugins it includes.
Includes 3d windows for the cube (Where the windows stick off of the walls), this new "Shelf" plugin, that makes it able to shrink the size of windows to a thumbnail where you can dock them to the side of your desktop or wherever. They also have an "Error notification" plugin which is neat- Gives you an alert whenever any program has an error, and you can specify how serious an error has to be before it notifies you. The notification is just a little popup on your notification area.
In the new Gnome, I really really like the new VNC client. It has a "bookmark" section to the side, and it has tabs. Tabs for VNC! I love it. The other really useful thing it has is a "VNC scanner", which scans computers on the domain for VNC ports to connect to, and gives you a nice list. Besides that, there isn't really much else great about the new Gnome- They try to keep things "simple" (A.K.A., not much customization to be done.)
I've had a couple problems so far with Ubuntu 8.04, though. The first noticeable problem was that only one window on my desktop had a border. I.E, if I switched from one window to another, the window I switched to would lose it's border and title bar, and the new window would get borders and a title bar. I fixed this by installing Xgl, apparently I didn't have it.
The other issue is these odd black dots.. They consist of maybe four pixels making a block. There's about 10 of them in a row on my screen, even when I do the cube and other things, they stay on top of everything. Even in my log in window. I have no idea what's causing it.
And, finally, my sound isn't working now. But I see a lot of people are having this problem.
Oh, and one more con- The "Unlock" button for network manager is really annoying. I'm not sure why it was needed, maybe someone can enlighten me?
Most modern distros will overwrite the XP bootloader with GRUB the linux bootloader. However GRUB will detect windows and present it as a boot option so its pretty much seamless.
To prepare, use partition manager in windows to free up some space on one of your drives, then install linux in the free space. As above GRUB will detect windows partition seamlessly.
If you ever want to revert to windows bootloader, just boot off the XP disk, go into recovery console and type a command which I can't remember but googling will reveal it very quickly (its something like fixmbr).
NTFS is fine with a driver called ntfs-3g, may not be out of the box but it is usually easily obtainable via an update. In Ubuntu it will be a one-line command to install, same as installing anything (you will love this about linux) as long as you have an internet connection. There will be a general 'install X package' commmand, from memory in ubuntu its 'sudo apt-get XXX'.
However this will only install the driver, you will probably have to manually mount the windows partition via either the mount command or editing your fstab which is the file linux uses to determine what file systems to mount.
Personally if its ur first go I would install linux on a spare box to have a tinker first. I went down this path for a year before I was game enough to muck with my 'production' desktop.
The critical thing is to have another working computer with the internet available so you can look up instructions on the fly whilst you're in linux in case you can't get something to work in linux that also kills your web browsing. Once you have google at your disposal, your issues (barring bad-luck hardware incompatibilities) are all solvable and someone out there will have solved it already and posted a solution for you, often with cut-and-paste commands to follow.
Have fun, and don't get discouraged - remember it took you however many years to learn what you know about windows, and for the first few weeks it will feel like learning how to walk again. Remember: most of what you know about PCs is actually what you know about WINDOWS, so don't be surprised when things are done differently in linux (on the upside it generally makes perfect sense). But in the long run it will pay off. The great thing is that in linux everything is controlled via human readable text files, no registry hunting required, even if you don't know anything about X you can tell a lot from the config files and tonnes of issues can be solved by a simple and obvious parameter change.
Disclaimer: above is general linux advice from a Fedora user, I do not use ubuntu so your mileage may vary.
Yes, the tracker is overloaded, but that's why we have DHT!
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I've been running Hardy right up from Alpha 2 until the RC. It's a quality release. Only issue I've had so far is that the sound on my laptop (Vostro 1700, uses Intel HDA) is almost impossible to hear unless the sound is up all the way. I've read a few things to try and get it fixed, but that's not too high priority right now.
The installation is clean, it did a fantastic job auto-detecting my 3D hardware and setting up Compiz on both laptop and desktop (Intel X3100 and GeForce FX5500 respectively), and it's easy enough for grandma to use.
Kudos to the Ubuntu team.
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Because Kde4.0.3 isn't even a beta-quality replacement for KDE 3.5 yet. Kontact isn't ported yet, Konqueror has SSL issues, and Plasma and xrandr don't get along.
Now I'm not knocking KDE, 4.0 was always intended to be a stable release of the LIBRARIES, not the apps. But that means it's still not ready for end-users yet.
Presumably Firefox is in better shape than this.
In 8.04, you can use the Windows based installer (Wubi) instead.
At some point, somewhere, the entire internet will be found to be illegal.
It gotten modded funny because it's really amusing how fucking stupid you are.
Look at the download page: http://www.kubuntu.org/download.php
See the link to BitTorrent? Torrents are a sanctioned and encouraged method of download.
Click the link and read. Educate yourself, Jackson.
Yeah, except that the copyright holder, (Canonical LTD) is freely distributing their copyrighted works via torrents because it saves them money on bandwidth.
The software they're releasing is being released as free and open source. The license strictly affords anyone the right to redistribute the software in any means. This includes torrents. And if I'm not mistaken I believe you also have the right to burn the ISO to a CDROM and charge money for that CDROM.
Try the Ubuntu forums instead, or linuxquestions.org. Nice folks.
Slashdot isn't really a place to get "help" unless you have a fireproof suit that needs testing while you are wearing it.
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