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Ubuntu 5.10RC
With just one more week to go before the final release of Ubuntu 5.10,
the Ubuntu team is proud to announce the Ubuntu 5.10 Release Candidate.
This is the final milestone before the official 5.10 release, and
includes installation CDs, live CDs, and combination DVDs for three
architectures.
Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for your desktop or server, with a
fast and easy install, regular releases, a tight selection of
excellent packages installed by default, every other package you can
imagine available from the network, a commitment to security updates
for 18 months after each release and professional technical support
from many companies around the world.
To Get Ubuntu 5.10RC
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Download Ubuntu 5.10RC here (choose the mirror closest to you):
United States:
http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.10/
Europe:
http://se.releases.ubuntu.com/5.10/
United Kingdom:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/5.10/
Rest of the World:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/5.10/
Note: these release candidate CD images are larger than 650 megabytes, and
require CD media with sufficient capacity.
Please download using Bittorrent if possible.
The final version of Ubuntu 5.10 will be released on October 13th.
At that time, we will mail pressed CDs free of charge. To
receive a complimentary copy of the Official Breezy Badger CD -- or
a handful of them to give to your friends, your school or LUG --
place your request at the URL below. Remember that these CDs won't
ship until after the final release.
http://shipit.ubuntu.com/
About Ubuntu 5.10RC
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To see it all, you'll need to try the CD, but the highlights
include:
On the Desktop
* GNOME 2.12.1
* OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta 2
* X.org 6.8.2 with wider hardware support
* An enhanced tool for easily installing new applications
(see "Add Applications" on the Applications menu)
* A new tool which makes it easy to install support for
multiple languages (Language Selector)
* Editable GNOME menus
* Applications are now linked into the Launchpad infrastructure
(new entries on the Help menus for translation and support)
* Support for writing audio CDs (Serpentine)
* Graphical startup process with progress bar (USplash)
* New documentation (Ubuntu 5.10 Quick Tour and Ubuntu 5.10 FAQ Guide)
* Language packs with updates from the Rosetta translation platform,
which makes contributing translations easy for everybody
On the Server
* Plone 2.1 & Zope 2.8.1
* PHP5
* Support for automatic storage allocation into LVM volumes
* Built-in thin client functionality produced in cooperation
with the LTSP project (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinClientHowto)
* Simple NFS root setup with automatic hardware detection
through initramfs-tools
* Support for up to 4 gigabytes of RAM by default on 32-bit
architectures
* Kernel support for cluster filesystems (OCFS2 and GFS)
Hardware Support Improvements
* Linux 2.6.12.6 with many updated drivers from third parties
* Further enhancements to laptop support (hot keys,
and working suspend/resume on more models)
* HP all-in-one printer/scanner devices are supported out of
the box
* Bluetooth input devices (such as keyboards and mice) are
supported out of the box
* Multiple audio devices are handled more gracefully (and one
can easily select the default device)
* 64-bit PowerPC kernel available
Installation
* A new OEM mode to simplify the process of preinstalling
Ubuntu on computers for resale or redistribution
* Automatically makes existing hard drive partitions available
to the desktop
* Simple "dual boot" configuration with automatic resizing of
an existing installed OS
* The second stage of the installation now has a progress bar
"Under the hood"
* GCC 4.0.1
* glibc 2.3.5
* New early userspace infrastructure based on initramfs-tools
* More modular X.org packaging
* Python 2.4.2
As always, Ubuntu includes the very best of the 100% free/libre
application software world, and each new release incorporates
countless new features and bugfixes from the global development
community.
Feedback and Helping
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If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of
ways you can participate at
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate/
Your comments, bug reports, patches and suggestions will help ensure
that Ubuntu 5.10 is the best release of Ubuntu ever. Please report
bugs through Bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/
If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug but
aren't sure, first try asking on the #ubuntu IRC channel on Freenode,
on the Ubuntu Users mailing list, or on the Ubuntu forums:
http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/
More Information
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You can find out more about Ubuntu on our website, IRC channel and wiki.
If you're new to Ubuntu, please visit:
http://www.ubuntu.com/
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http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce
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Ubuntu 5.10RC Posted Oct 10, 2005 8:18 UTC (Mon) by sernarh (guest, #32983) [Link] VERY IMPORTANT! IN ORDER TO PRINT TO HP LASERJET 1000, SPECIALLY TO THIS KIND OF PRINTER CONNECTED TO PC RUNNING XP AND SHARED FOR UBUNTU WORKSTATIONS, IT IS A MUST TO INCLUDE THE PACKAGE foo2zjs AS A SELECTION TO INSTALL IN SYNAPTIC PACKAGE MANAGER FOR THE NEW VERSION OF UBUNTU 5.10. WITHOUT THIS PACKAGE (foo2zjs) FOR INSTALLATION IN SYNAPTIC, IT WOULD BE NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE TO PRINT USING HP LASERJET 1000. PLEASE ADD foo2zjs IN SYNAPTIC PACKAGE MANAGER, INSTALL IT FROM THERE AND IT WOULD BE SMOOTH SAILING FOR HP LASERJET 1000, 1005, AND SELECTED MINOLTA PRINTER USERS.
Ubuntu 5.10RC Posted Oct 13, 2005 3:46 UTC (Thu) by deunan_knute (subscriber, #290) [Link] please don't shout.
Ubuntu 5.10RC Posted Oct 13, 2005 8:29 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] ALL I WANT to know is, has anybody fixed the problem where the wrong frame buffer driver (vesafb) is installed during boot-up, screwing up operation of the correct (e.g. nvidiafb) driver, so that (e.g.) laptops won't switch to an external monitor on command? I don't know why we need to have a frame buffer during boot, at all; or if we must, why the boot script can't be told to use the right one, next time, after it's discover(8)ed which one that is.
Ubuntu 5.10RC Posted Oct 13, 2005 14:23 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] You need to configure vesafb early in the boot process or never, this is a limitation of the VESA BIOS interface. There are ways around this, but they are really messy.
Final candidate? Posted Oct 13, 2005 4:33 UTC (Thu) by bignose (subscriber, #40) [Link] The label "final release candidate" is a misnomer.
If it's a "release candidate", then it might possibly become the actual release. The "candidate" means that we don't yet know whether it will actually be the release. No candidate for release can be called "final" until it's already known to be the one that gets released.
If it's not the actual release, there will be another one after it -- in which case it's not the "final release candidate".
If we *know* there won't be another one after this, that what's the point of distributing it as a "candidate"? Surely if it's already known that this *is* the final candidate for release, why not release it now?
Conversely, if we *don't* know whether there will be another candidate after this, it can't be called "final" until after the fact.
Final candidate? Posted Oct 13, 2005 8:22 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] No, it's a candidate for the final release version. The final release version, of course, will be the released version. There might be more candidates if this one doesn't pass muster.
Arguably they should have called it a "final-release candidate" to emphasize this, for the logic-impaired, but most logic-impaired people probably aren't detail-oriented enough to notice the hyphen, or even the distinction it makes. The rest of us can chuckle indulgently at the apparent contradiction, and at anybody who bites.
Final candidate? Posted Oct 13, 2005 11:18 UTC (Thu) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link] Well, it was the final release candidate :) The final release is out now.
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