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Goals for the Ubuntu 'Breezy' Release
A set of preliminary
goals for the Ubuntu 'Breezy Badger' release has been posted. The
Ubuntu developers cannot be faulted for lack of ambition; if they achieve
a substantial portion of those objectives, Breezy will be a nice release
indeed.
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Goals for the Ubuntu 'Breezy' Release Posted May 11, 2005 15:45 UTC (Wed) by cantsin (guest, #4420) [Link] The agenda looks good for desktop users. But it is so ambitious in its scope that it makes Ubuntu fork further from Debian, probably also breaking some of Debian's policy.
Goals for the Ubuntu 'Breezy' Release Posted May 11, 2005 17:34 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] Then Debian will just need to figure out how to reverse the direction of flow. Debian is too slow-moving to be treated as upstream of Ubuntu; it's going to have to figure out how to manage being downstream as well.As for policy: Debian's policies work very well in the server context, but are going to need work for the desktop. Ubuntu is doing that work, and Debian can learn from it, picking up the best ideas and leaving the rest. Forking is OK if it's interwoven with re-merging.
Goals for the Ubuntu 'Breezy' Release Posted May 11, 2005 17:57 UTC (Wed) by josh_stern (guest, #4868) [Link] I'm a long time Debian user who recently put Ubuntu Hoary on a laptop to take advantage of the quick install (ntfs resizing included, no need to install and then upgrade to unstable, etc). So far I'm liking Ubuntu a lot and the main thing I miss is an equivalent for the http://packages.debian.org web page. Would like to see Ubuntu make such a page as a future todo item.
Goals for the Ubuntu 'Breezy' Release Posted May 11, 2005 18:01 UTC (Wed) by metaur (guest, #13633) [Link] There's already http://packages.ubuntu.com/ .
// Ulf Härnhammar
Goals for the Ubuntu 'Breezy' Release Posted May 11, 2005 19:13 UTC (Wed) by josh_stern (guest, #4868) [Link] Thanks, that's a big help. I didn't find any link to that site from the Ubuntu homepage and hadn't thought to just try the analogy.
Goals for the Ubuntu 'Breezy' Release Posted May 11, 2005 18:46 UTC (Wed) by TwoTimeGrime (guest, #11688) [Link] What policies would it break?
Ambitious indeed Posted May 11, 2005 21:49 UTC (Wed) by alspnost (guest, #2763) [Link] Well, this confirms that Ubuntu is really going places. If they achieve even half of this, I think we can say that 2006 really *will* be the year of Linux on the desktop :-)
Ambitious indeed Posted May 12, 2005 7:50 UTC (Thu) by Zenith (subscriber, #24899) [Link] If they achieve even half of this, I think we can say that 2006 really *will* be the year of Linux on the desktop :-)....making it the 7th (or so) consecutive year of Linux on the desktop :-P
Installed yesterday. Posted May 12, 2005 9:18 UTC (Thu) by penguinroar (guest, #14460) [Link] Actually installing Ubuntu was the easiest install i have ever made on any OS. Every single hardware just worked, camera, usb stick, mp3 player, printer you name it. The repo is impressive and has an enormous amount of software if one enables the full repos through for eg. synaptic. The only tweak i did was to get tv-out on nvidias propriatary driver.
Ubuntu is very much ready for daily desktop use, in some areas its easier than windows with ubuntu since you actually can change usb port for a hardware without reinstalling the driver ;D
Installed yesterday. Posted May 12, 2005 15:36 UTC (Thu) by gomadtroll (guest, #11239) [Link] And it does all that in 64bit also, nice work.
Greg
Installed yesterday. Posted May 12, 2005 21:40 UTC (Thu) by Zenith (subscriber, #24899) [Link] I would agree with the installation, and for my own use, it's highly recommended, but I have a few gripes with it (or rather "Linux on the Desktop") that makes me a bit sceptical.
I recently tried, as an experiment, to install Ubuntu on a friend of mine's laptop. Although the installation was pretty smooth, getting MP3 and Java and so on to work is probably more than most "dumb" users can handle. Xine failed miserably in trying to play her *cough* pirated *cough* movies, so I had to install mplayer and all the codecs along with it, and Totem was really annoying the shit out of me (not working well either and crashing), so that went out as well. Tried setting rhythmbox up as much as possible to mimick Winamp, but installed Beep Media Player just in case, and Open Office as well.
Installed yesterday. Posted May 15, 2005 5:22 UTC (Sun) by jbailey (subscriber, #16890) [Link] If you have suspend or hibernate bugs, please file them in bugzilla. Hibernate should be working fully with Hoary, and you should generally be able to expect Suspend to work with Breezy.
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