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Ubuntu Breezy Badger "Colony 3" now available
| From: | Matt Zimmerman <mdz-AT-ubuntu.com> | |
| To: | ubuntu-devel-AT-lists.ubuntu.com, ubuntu-users-AT-lists.ubuntu.com | |
| Subject: | Breezy Badger milestone release "Colony 3" now available | |
| Date: | Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:46:01 -0700 | |
| Archive-link: | Article, Thread |
Colony CD 3, the third milestone release of the Breezy Badger development branch, is now available. Our last milestone release was over a month ago, and there has been a lot of interest in testing Breezy, so we are pleased to provide this snapshot to the community for testing. It is available for download here: United Kingdom: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/breezy/colony-3/ In the near future, this snapshot should also be available from the US mirror: United States: http://us.cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/releases/breezy/colo... If you test it, be sure to send us a report to ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com. There have been many improvements and bugfixes since Colony 2, but here are a few highlights: - The second stage installer now has a progress bar, rather than massive amounts of scrolling text - The kernel uses initramfs rather than initrd, with a new hardware detection infrastructure allowing for more flexible boot configurations (such as for diskless workstations) - The much-awaited USplash graphical boot feature is included; though its full functionality is not yet enabled, it displays a graphical boot screen and it is important for us to know that it works on a wide variety of hardware before proceeding. To activate it, run the following command in a terminal after installing or upgrading: $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-`uname -r` - It is possible to install directly to LVM volumes from the installer - Bluetooth input devices should work out of the box - The "Add/Remove Programs" tool has been enhanced and beautified - Several desktop programs have been extended to provide convenient access to related resources in Launchpad (you'll see new items in the Help menu). For example, Archive Manager, Text Editor and Evolution. - Special keys on laptops should work out of the box in more cases - A new tool has been added to make it easy to add and remove support for multiple languages (System->Administration->Ubuntu Language Selector) Known bugs and caveats: - [Live CD] There is something strange happening with the virtual console switching on the live CD, which means that some of the startup and shutdown messages are obscured - [Install CD] The language packs for GNOME are not included on the CD, so they will be downloaded from the network. Non-networked installations may need to install language-pack-<language>-gnome manually. Enjoy! -- - mdz
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Ubuntu Breezy Badger "Colony 3" now available
Posted Aug 18, 2005 17:40 UTC (Thu) by davidw (subscriber, #947) [Link]
I wonder if they've fixed the glibc bug?
http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12009
It's in Debian too, and it's a good reason to either avoid Debian for anything that heavily uses threads, or use the supplied workaround.
I'm curious who will get the fix out first - and by fix I don't mean some package in unstable, but something in a stable release. Ubuntu, most likely, given their release policy...
Ubuntu Breezy Badger "Colony 3" now available
Posted Aug 18, 2005 19:48 UTC (Thu) by broonie (subscriber, #7078) [Link]
A fix seems to have been uploaded for Debian, FWIW.
Ubuntu Breezy Badger "Colony 3" now available
Posted Aug 18, 2005 20:41 UTC (Thu) by TwoTimeGrime (guest, #11688) [Link]
Anyone know how to upgrade to this via apt-get so that I don't have to use a CD?
Ubuntu Breezy Badger "Colony 3" now available
Posted Aug 18, 2005 23:59 UTC (Thu) by peace (guest, #10016) [Link]
I just changed all "hoary" references in /etc/apt/source.list to "breezy" and then did a sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. I also removed any non Ubuntu blessed mirrors to be safe. So I just had "main" "universe" and "multiverse".
I use Kubuntu and had a few glitches that I had to work around with dpkg. Also, the new Kaffeine only installed the gstreamer video engine but without avi codecs. I went and installed kaffeine-xine and switched the engine and it works fine. If you use the Gnome desktop I'll bet gstreamer will be installed properly. There were a couple file conflicts between packages (xlibmesa-dri was one). I used dpkg --purge to clear out the existing packages and then apt-get -f install and apt-get dist-upgrade repeatedly until everything was installed. All in all I think I spent about an hour fussing with it. I already had the new KDE mirrors for 3.4.2 and an updated kaffeine player so the upgrade isn't all that noticiable on a superficial level. I'm looking forward to the release though :)
anyway, ymmv.
Kind Regards
Ubuntu Breezy Badger "Colony 3" now available
Posted Aug 21, 2005 16:15 UTC (Sun) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263) [Link]
The Kaffeine devs recommends GStreamer...
Ubuntu Breezy Badger "Colony 3" now available
Posted Aug 21, 2005 16:17 UTC (Sun) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263) [Link]
Sorry, my bad. Got my head screwed up by the Amarok article, and somehow mixed Amarok and Kaffeine...
It's the Amarok devs that recommends GStreamer...
*Doh*
Terminal Server Support?
Posted Aug 18, 2005 23:52 UTC (Thu) by AnswerGuy (subscriber, #1256) [Link]
I like Ubuntu better than KNOPPIX in a few respects. The main one isthat Ubuntu supports LVM (and many of the systems I have to rescue are
running LVM).
I think the use of snapshots for COW (copy-on-write) is a clever alternative to UnionFS.
However, one thing I really miss in Ubuntu is the KNOPPIX terminal server support. When I'm setting up a class to teach some Linux concepts using KNOPPIX terminal server is a fast way to get a room full of machines running Linux without installing it on any of them. It's also handy for making a PXE bootable rescue image.
So I'm hoping they're adding it.
JimD
Terminal Server Support?
Posted Aug 19, 2005 5:28 UTC (Fri) by mdz@debian.org (subscriber, #14112) [Link]
I'm not intimately familiar with Knoppix's terminal server feature, but if it's anything like it sounds, we've had this feature planned for the Ubuntu 5.10 release for some time now, through a partnership with the LTSP project.
The background: http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/MueKow
The spec: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinClientIntegration
The documentation: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinClientIntegration
Re: Terminal Server Support?
Posted Aug 23, 2005 0:38 UTC (Tue) by sweikart (subscriber, #4276) [Link]
The documentation is at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinClientHowto
Terminal Server Support?
Posted Aug 25, 2005 12:27 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Knoppix supports LVM as well. I used it to LVMize one of my systems back in the Knoppix 3.7 days, a year ago now...
Terminal Server Support?
Posted Oct 4, 2005 8:08 UTC (Tue) by rokdun (guest, #32849) [Link]
Knoppix *used* to support LVM... In Knoppix 3.9, no LVM. In 3.6, there was LVM 1, probably the same in 3.7. I don't know if there are plans to add it, though...
Anyone else tired of these inscrutable code names?
Posted Aug 19, 2005 0:54 UTC (Fri) by stevenj (subscriber, #421) [Link]
It used to be that one could trust the free-software community, at least, to use sensible major.minor.bugfix version numbers. Soon, we'll have "GNOME Vista 2005 SPQR Panthro".
Anyone else tired of these inscrutable code names?
Posted Aug 19, 2005 1:52 UTC (Fri) by rm6990 (guest, #30921) [Link]
Ummm, what are you talking about? Colony 3 is a alpha version name. Much like Deer Park for the Alpha versions of Firefox. Breezy, when released, will use the standard Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy title.
Or do you propose that instead they name the alpha version the same as the final release so that every novice linux user downloads an alpha release, not realizing they have done so? That is the exact reason Firefox Alphas are named Deer Park.
Anyone else tired of these inscrutable code names?
Posted Aug 19, 2005 19:10 UTC (Fri) by stevenj (subscriber, #421) [Link]
No, alpha version should be named 5.10 alpha 1, etcetera.What happens instead is that people tend to refer to the releases by the code names (hmm, does Debian "sid" come after or before "woody"??).
Anyone else tired of these inscrutable code names?
Posted Aug 25, 2005 6:52 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
If one don't even know that, maybe it's best to avoid the unstable version of the software for now. :)
Anyone else tired of these inscrutable code names?
Posted Aug 19, 2005 3:49 UTC (Fri) by jwb (subscriber, #15467) [Link]
No, you couldn't ever trust people to do that. RPM once broke binary compatibility with a sub-sub-minor revision number, and Linux 2.6 is essentially a wide-open development tree. The user would be wise to ignore the version number and check the release notes instead.
Anyone else tired of these inscrutable code names?
Posted Aug 19, 2005 12:53 UTC (Fri) by peace (guest, #10016) [Link]
Ubuntu's numbering system is based on the date of release. So Breezy should be out October 2005. I like their system as it is more informative to be awaiting the 5.10 Ubuntu release than the 10.1 SuSE, 5.0 Fedora or 3.2 Debian release.
Giving a distribution software version numbers does not make a ton of sense anyway. They package up other software that does have sensible versioning for the most part. I would rather be able to deduce the release date from the distribution version code so that I can get a sense for what software is likely to be in it. For example, tell me what the SuSE 5.3 release meant. I'm sure that Ubuntu's installer apps have sensible version numbers.
Kind Regards
Anyone else tired of these inscrutable code names?
Posted Aug 25, 2005 10:41 UTC (Thu) by guybar (subscriber, #798) [Link]
The office for obfuscation and mis-communication just called.
They find your objection to calling alphas "deer park" or "Colony" or "sid" or "bugs bunny", or whatever, really offensive.
Bordering on KISS-like heresy, even.
Upgrade surprises
Posted Aug 25, 2005 6:27 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]
Fair warning: an Xorg upgrade from Hoary might turn out very time-consuming, at the moment. Major changes in font and input device driver packaging make it easy to break your configuration. In particular, keyboard and mouse input drivers have been split to separate packages not depended on by the base packages your system knows about. Furthermore, your server is likely to find itself trying to start without any standard fonts in place.I had to apt-get install those input drivers and fonts, and then manually update the font cache and font alias files in those directories. I have no idea if there was an easier way. No doubt all this will be fixed up in short order.
Upgrade surprises
Posted Aug 29, 2005 17:36 UTC (Mon) by mdz@debian.org (subscriber, #14112) [Link]
- xserver-xorg, which is installed by default with Ubuntu 5.04/Hoary, does in fact depend on all of the packages into which it has been split in Breezy, and it has since the day it was split. I'd be interested to see a transcript of your upgrade.
- If you're having an issue with fonts, please report it to bugzilla.ubuntu.com (this has been working for others for some time now)