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The Ubuntu 5.04 preview is available
| From: | Matt Zimmerman <mdz-AT-ubuntu.com> | |
| To: | ubuntu-announce-AT-lists.ubuntu.com | |
| Subject: | Announcing the Ubuntu 5.04 Preview | |
| Date: | Thu, 10 Mar 2005 05:07:56 -0800 |
The Ubuntu Team is proud to announce the preview of their second release: Ubuntu 5.04-preview - codenamed "Hoary Hedgehog" (*). The preview release includes both install CDs and bootable Live CDs for three architectures. There are CD images of the preview release in both Install and Live CD format for Intel/x86, PowerPC and AMD64 here: http://releases.ubuntu.com/hoary/ Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for the desktop or the server that includes all of Debian as well as most of the packages of apt-get.org, and more, with a fast and easy install, regular releases (every six months), a tight selection of excellent packages installed by default, a commitment to security updates for 18 months after release and professional technical support from many companies for every release. To see it all, you'll need to try the CD, but the highlights include: * GNOME 2.10 -- Very fresh... Released yesterday! * X.org 6.8.2 * Kickstart compatibility for automatic installations * Several new desktop package-management tools to make it even easier to stay up to date * An ultra-fast boot process, with optimized init process and special optimizations for the hotplug system * Improved hardware support on a range of platforms -- laptops in particular gain improved suspend/hibernation support and processor frequency scaling * Unified and improved hardware detection between the install and live CDs, which gives us live CDs on powerpc and amd64 too * A range of improvements related to internationalization, translations, and different keyboard layouts, including a new smart keyboard selector that guesses your keyboard based on keypresses * A load of new Ubuntu-specific documentation, thanks to the hard work of our community documentation team * Instant messaging, desktop publishing, office productivity, with vorbis playback and Python 2.4 ready out of the box * Enhancements to the hardware abstraction layer to provide you with BIOS, CPU, memory and LSB data (infrastructure for the upcoming hardware database) * Enhanced proactive security due to privilege minimization of many processes which previously ran as root. This work reduces the impact of many potential security vulnerabilities. * The very best of the 100% FREE / LIBRE application software world. * Much, much more! You can find out more about Ubuntu and about this preview release on our website, IRC channel and wiki. If you're new to Ubuntu, please visit: http://www.ubuntu.com/ The final version of Ubuntu 5.04 is expected to be released in early April. At that time, we will be mailing shrinkwrapped CDs free of charge to anyone who signs up for one. To receive a complimentary copy of the Hoary Hedgehog CD -- or a handful to give to your friends, your school or LUG, place your request at the URL below. If you requested CDs before, you'll need to log in and update your order: http://shipit.ubuntu.com/ The community behind Ubuntu has continued to grow since our last release. There are many ways to track Ubuntu development and to participate in mailing lists, forums, and in focused teams. Teams include new Local Community Teams that help coordinate Ubuntu advocacy and support for users in communities around the world. Visit our community page for more information: http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ To sign up for future Ubuntu announcements, you may subscribe to Ubuntu's very low volume announcement list at: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce This list is archived at http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/ and receives on average less than 5 messages per month. (*) Hoary, adj., So old as to inspire veneration; ancient. In case you were wondering. -- - mdz -- ubuntu-announce mailing list ubuntu-announce@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce
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It-just-works
Posted Mar 10, 2005 19:10 UTC (Thu) by sjj (guest, #2020) [Link]
I have been a Debian user for almost a decade. A week ago I got around to test-installing Ubuntu hoary (I'd tried warty earlier, but ditched it for some reason that I can't remember anymore).
This thing is awesome. It really just works, it's as fast as my Debian sarge with XFCE4 desktop. The only thing it got wrong were the monitor frequencies, so I got 60Hz flicker city. Admittedly, this is a generic machine with no exotic or bleeding edge hardware (Athlon 2400 on an nForce2 mobo, integrated nVidia MX400 video).
I also installed it on a Toshiba Portege 3500 laptop. No problems, and the existing XP was integrated into grub boot menu just fine (I had an empty partition on the disk where I installed Ubuntu).
The default install from the single CD includes everything a regular computer user needs in about 1.5 GB.
The only gripe I have so far is the default brown color scheme. While I applaud the different look from all the blue-tinged desktops, I find it ugly (but since one of the authors of the theme is Mark Shuttleworth, maybe hard to get changed ;-).
I think the Ubuntu people have really made a leap here. All the goodies of Debian, without the pains. Somehow even Gnome is bearable now, and Evolution is almost zippy.
Well done.
It-just-works
Posted Mar 10, 2005 19:58 UTC (Thu) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]
The LiveCD got my monitor frequencies wrong too--so much so that my monitor gave up and showed "Out of Spec" on the OSD. And I didn't see the screen that would have allowed me to choose what resolutions to allow--kind of annoying. But once I ran the live CD within VMWare, I was able to see everything. (It was slow as molasses of course, since the VM only had 128M allocated to it, but I was expecting that.)
It-just-works
Posted Mar 10, 2005 20:09 UTC (Thu) by tomsi (subscriber, #2306) [Link]
I also saw the monitor issue when I installed Hoary.
But I think this is a general issue; SUSE has been overly optimistic many years - defaulting to a way too high resolution that the monitor can't handle.
I think it better that the distributions starts conservative and let me
increase it later.
Tom
It-just-works
Posted Mar 11, 2005 17:41 UTC (Fri) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]
The LiveCD got my monitor frequencies wrong too--so much so that my monitor gave up and showed "Out of Spec" on the OSD.I'm using an older monitor, so all I got was a black screen. It installed on the hard drive OK, so I guess it was just a problem with the live CD.
It-just-works
Posted Mar 11, 2005 20:51 UTC (Fri) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]
If you guys could all email daniel.stone@ubuntu.com, and attach the output of running 'sudo ddcprobe', your generated /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and /var/log/Xorg.0.log from when it started with a blank screen, we'll see if we can't get it fixed. Thanks.
Just installed
Posted Mar 11, 2005 10:33 UTC (Fri) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559) [Link]
Excellent product, installation was painless and rapid.
Oh by the way, the installation was only 1 disk meanwhile the Fedora folks are gearing up for an *even larger* CD set for FC4 (!). This is why I dropped Fedora, no discipline in picking the packages in the default distribution.
Ubuntu *just works* as others have said. I won't be moving distros again.
The number of install CDs
Posted Mar 18, 2005 16:53 UTC (Fri) by scripter (subscriber, #2654) [Link]
Having to swap CDs is a pain, but I'd much rather do that than download all of the extra packages I typically want. But most of my machines have DVD drives now, so I don't have to swap CDs when I install RedHat/Fedora. I don't think the number of install CDs it the real motivation for most people to switch distributions.
Anyway, I've been trying Ubuntu for about a week now, and like it better than SUSE, but I'm still much more familiar with the RH way of doing things. I've used apt-get for RH for years, so that part of the transition to Ubuntu has been easy.
Is there a guide somewhere that will help me transition my RPM knowledge into debian package management knowledge? For example, how do I do the following things?
rpm -qif /usr/bin/someprogram
rpm -ql somepackage
rpm --verify somepackage
rpm -qa | grep whatever
The number of install CDs
Posted Mar 20, 2005 18:46 UTC (Sun) by aglet (guest, #1334) [Link]
From memory:
dpkg -S /usr/bin/someprogram # rpm -qif /usr/bin/someprogram
dpkg -L somepackage # rpm -ql somepackage
debsums somepackage # rpm --verify somepackage
dpkg -l '*whatever*' # rpm -qa | grep whatever
The number of install CDs
Posted Mar 21, 2005 17:22 UTC (Mon) by scripter (subscriber, #2654) [Link]
Thanks for the information. It's exactly what I needed.
The number of install CDs
Posted Mar 20, 2005 18:48 UTC (Sun) by aglet (guest, #1334) [Link]
Here's a more useful page than my brief answers (I searched Google for "rpm dpkg rosetta"):
The Ubuntu 5.04 preview is available
Posted Mar 11, 2005 14:38 UTC (Fri) by chaneau (subscriber, #6674) [Link]
This is a very good product
We are a mostly Debian shop, but if it is easy to put Gnome 1.4 and KDE 2.2 on new user, once they get in the "Open/Free whatever" state of mind it is very difficult to restrict them and say "sorry but I want a stable release so you have to go with Woody"
So when Ubuntu came out I switched some desktop and now there is no turning back
Better than that, when I received a brand new Primergy TX150 s2 with a Promise Fasttrak SX4 raid card, it was certified by Suse and RedHat but although I do know my way around I was unable to make it work correctly even with the proprietary kernel-module. After a while I put (out of desparation I guess) the Ubuntu CD in it, defined a raid 1 array and everything worked from the start.
Congrats to the Ubuntu team
The Ubuntu 5.04 preview is available
Posted Mar 13, 2005 10:45 UTC (Sun) by Klavs (subscriber, #10563) [Link]
I'm wondering if it still fails to run installer from USB-attached CDrom's :(Unfortunately not many distro's advertise if that works or not - it's always worked with Mandrake - but that's about it :(
The Ubuntu 5.04 preview is available
Posted Mar 17, 2005 3:20 UTC (Thu) by mdz@debian.org (subscriber, #14112) [Link]
I'm not sure it's perfect yet, but we've done some work in this area to allow the installer and live CD to work more reliably from USB CD-ROM drives.
Kickstart compatibility?
Posted Mar 17, 2005 8:15 UTC (Thu) by snitm (subscriber, #4031) [Link]
So is that to say Ubuntu uses the anaconda port that Progeny did a while back? I've yet to install ubuntu (just burned the iso) but I'd be interested if anyone has some more details on Ubuntu's kickstart compatibility. I found this and based on the few details that were documented it does feel like a straight port of anaconda; please correct me if I'm wrong.