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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."
I seem to be stuck at 98%....
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
Its as if thousands of bittorrent peers suddenly started connecting at once.
If sharing a song makes you a pirate, what do I have to share to be a ninja?
Don't forget Kubuntu!
There are some of us who don't (or kan't) run Gnome...
Summation 2
(Note that I don't use Ubuntu or plan to use it any time in the very near future, so I really have no idea how easy it'd be to swap things out.)
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
It's beta. It's also widely unsupported right now and doesn't work with several plug-ins I love to use. I do like some of the built in features of it, and use it on several of my systems, but I don't see it as belonging in an OS Release.
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.
I am very happy that there has been another LTS release (and on my birthday)! I've been running the beta and it has been very stable other than than the firefox alpha (which seems to work fine on my debian lenny box).
I am dissapointed that abiword 2.6 didn't make the cut, though. It is a great release, however the timing of things didn't work out. You can get some context on what happened at one of the developer's blog and the bug report. Seems there was a little tension involved. Also, here are the release notes for Abiword.
Being an LTS release, I wonder if they can get it backported? I don't think that usually happens with that drastic of an upgrade - is it just security updates that get backported? However, the Abiword team will not be supporting 2.4.x for the next 3 years so I hope that something along those lines is possible.
Oh well, off to compiling it myself. :)
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a yo-yo.-Enoch Root
http://193.147.168.122/ubuntu/
Please, always check MD5SUMS
My video card didn't work, sound didn't work, and, apparently, I use stale software with has been deprecated.
Either way, here's a review of my adventures:
http://thomer.com/howtos/hardy_heron.html
Here's a summary of the woes described on that web page:
1) to get nvidia to work for a GeForce 8600 GTS (and in my case TwinView, for two displays), you need to download a beta driver straight from nvidia,
2) to get sound to work you need to run a completely undocumented /etc/init.d/alsa-utils reset,
3) Firefox 3 (beta) is cool and all, but it does not support various plugins so I downgraded to firefox-2, and
4) xmms, which is ugly but worked just fine, has been deprecated and its replacement, audacious segfaults and freezes.
5) I got annoyed by trackerd hosing my disk and my CPU, so I removed it.
Hope this helps.
Instead of doing the bittorrent dance, I started having the disc shipped to me. You can order whatever you need from https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ - they do a great job of getting the discs shipped, free of charge, in a lot less time than what they indicate on the site.
I ask for 25 discs at a time, put a pile of them on my desk at work, and they're gone in a week. Here, have a Linux, it's free.
wasn't slashdot this time, the things just wildly popular.
I'm running XP at home. I've got two large hard drives, not in a RAID. Were I to download this Ubuntu release, would it be easy to set up dual-booting? What's the best way to do that, assuming I don't want to upset by Windows install in any way? Would I need to use FAT32 on a drive to make it visible to both OSs? Is there a robust method to at least read NTFS in Linux? Would it make sense to install on a USB memory stick or an external hard drive?
"I zero-index my hamsters" - Willtor (147206)
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.
So from the review there are several new features here that might be of use:
So it sounds like a couple of useful new features and probably more the review did not cover. opefully I'll give it a test run tonight.
No, it's Hairy Hadron, which is actually a new kind of subatomic particle predicted by stringy-hair theory. It's the particle that makes hippies and geeks smell the way they do. It can also give you telapathetic powers. People will know you're pathetic before you even walk into the room.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
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?
Slashdot should start using Ubuntu's symbol instead of Debian's. Oh and, I'm downloading via the torrent right now.
This bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/188226 causes synergy to sputter along unless its started under sudo or you recompiled your kernel with a different scheduler enabled.
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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This is Linux, not Windows. Try to download from someplace where it's noon.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Some quick notes on wubi, since this is Slashdot and it's probably the neatest part of the new release. Wubi has existed for a while but this is the first ubuntu that includes it as part of the distro.
Wubi permits you to install and dork around with ubuntu from within Windows. It has a comfy GUI front-end that creates a virtual partition within a Windows file, sets up the boot manager, downloads Ubuntu and installs it within the virtual partition. Ubuntu then boots and mounts the virtual partition within the Win32 file system. The installed Ubuntu can see the old Win32 file system and optionally read and write it. Windows sees the virtual partitions as a couple large files. And Wubi avoids making any partition changes to the target disk. All pretty cool actually, and significantly lowers the barriers to test-driving Ubuntu. See http://wubi-installer.org/ .
Does it still have buggy sound support for the sound hardware on the eeePC? I was rather annoyed by it for the last beta release and I can't really see them having fixed it in such a short time which is sad as it otherwise ran quite well...
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.
This is Linux, not Windows. Don't pretend there's some sort of fire when there isn't one.
It won't kill you, or cause you machine to become part of some botnet, just because you
upgraded a week or two later...
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
On the tracker, I see four DVD ISOs each for x86 and x64 with the same name and different hashes, and slightly different sizes. Anyone know what gives?
What's new in the server edition? All the articles I've seen so far are desktop-centric.
Does anyone here with a D-Link wireless PCI card have any networking issues with this release? I know that when the previous one came out, I was having some issues getting Ubuntu to recognize my wireless card... WDA-2320, if I'm remembering correctly.
Living With a Nerd
I see lots of replies about ISO mirrors and download sites, but has anyone tried to perform a distribution upgrade from 7.10 yet? Any news on that? I assumed I'd give that a shot maybe tomorrow when server loads aren't quite as busy...
This seems to indicate that it WON'T work, but that information is a month old. Anyone have a better experience?
That would, say, let me run ubuntu off of a live CD on a Windows machine but still be able store some stuff on the Windows machine? Like, if I have a company notebook, and I want to run Linux on the train, could I do that... without putting Linux on it?
This is my sig.
Is...was....err....was that a joke?
That could be either a joke or someone who is just underinformed. Being as torrents get the most attention (in the mainstream, at least) for illegal traffic, it shouldn't surprise anyone to encounter people who actually believe that all torrent traffic is illegal.
And of course, there are copyrights involved with Ubuntu Linux. However most of them are more than a little bit more permissive than those on "Enter Sandman".
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
I started testing 8.04 at alpha 3 and have tested every version since. I am sad to say that that every version I have tested locks up solid after 5 to 10 minutes. The bug has been filed and is being experience by quite a few people on a lot of different hardware.
I have put 7.10 back on my laptop and I will not be updating to 8.04 until the lock up bug is reported as being fixed.
Of course, it is working just fine on a lot of other hardware... So, do your self a favor and burn a live CD and test it for a few hours before you do the final upgrade and do a very careful and complete back up before you upgrade.
This is the first time I have had *any* problems with stability of an Ubuntu release and I have been using it for several years now and I have tested a lot of alpha and beta releases. I hope this is the last time I have any trouble with an Ubuntu release.
Stonewolf
Has anyone here experience with this one? I'd like to give it a try.
Ubuntu Studio is "a multimedia creation flavor of Ubuntu." It includes applications for audio and video creation and for graphic work. It also has the Linux kernel optimized for low latency.
http://ubuntustudio.org/
Download (not accessible at the moment):
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/hardy/release
Torrent mirror:
MD5: http://mma.users.ubuntustudio.org/Hardy-Torrents/MD5SUMS
i386: http://mma.users.ubuntustudio.org/Hardy-Torrents/ubuntustudio-8.04-alternate-i386.iso.torrent
AMD64: http://mma.users.ubuntustudio.org/Hardy-Torrents/ubuntustudio-8.04-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent
Hell, I just upgraded to 7.04 last week.
Seriously.
(Box had been un-networked for 8 months).
I'll wait a month or so; never install day 0... wait until a few more zeros are in the number.
One tip: if you use any kind of even slightly unusual X setup (such as dual monitors with Xinerama), back up your old xorg.conf and generate a fresh one with "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg" before you upgrade. When you've upgraded, use new X.org 7.3 tools like xrandr to do whatever it is you're aiming for.
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So now I can install Ubuntu with Wine?
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