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Announcing Ubuntu 6.10 Beta
The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the Beta Release of Ubuntu 6.10 -
codenamed "Edgy Eft".
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, and professional technical support from Canonical Ltd and hundreds
of other companies around the world.
Ubuntu 6.10 will be supported for 18 months on both the desktop and on the
server.
To Get Ubuntu 6.10 Beta
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Download Ubuntu 6.10 Beta here (choose the mirror closest to you):
United States:
http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/6.10/
Europe:
http://nl.releases.ubuntu.com/6.10/ (Netherlands)
http://de.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/6.10/ (Germany)
http://it.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/6.10/ (Italy)
Asia:
http://tw.releases.ubuntu.com/6.10/
United Kingdom:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/6.10/
Rest of the World:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/6.10/
Please download using Bittorrent if possible.
To upgrade from Ubuntu 6.06 LTS to Ubuntu 6.10 Beta, follow these
instructions:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdgyUpgrades
The final version of Ubuntu 6.10 is expected to be released in October.
About Ubuntu 6.10 Beta
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The full release notes can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdgyEft/Beta
Highlights include:
On the Desktop
* GNOME 2.16
* OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 RC 2
* X.org 7.1
On the Server
* Task selection for easier installation of mail servers, web
servers, etc.
* A pre-release of the upcoming LTSP 5.0 with support for local devices,
printers on thin clients as well as language and session selection from
the LTSP login manager, network swapping, etherboot support out of the
box and many more additions and improvements like network swap support
that reduce the minimal requirements for thin clients to 32MB memory.
"Under the hood"
* GCC 4.1.1
* glibc 2.4
* Linux 2.6.17
* New init system.
As always, Ubuntu includes the very best of the 100% Free / Libre
application software world, and each new release incorporates countless new
features and bug fixes 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 turn this Beta
into the best release of Ubuntu ever. Please report bugs through the
Launchpad bug tracker:
http://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs
If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug but are not
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 and about this preview release on our
website, IRC channel and wiki. If you are new to Ubuntu, please visit:
http://www.ubuntu.com/
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automated problem reports Posted Sep 29, 2006 8:32 UTC (Fri) by lacostej (subscriber, #2760) [Link] "Reporting crashes is now easier thanks to automated problem reports. When a userspace application experiences a crash a automated problem report will be generated. This means that users do not have to create debug version of software and will no longer have to spend hours trying to re-create a crash."
Anyone knows more about this ? Is this the Airbag tool (Talkback replacement code) from Mozilla and Google (http://code.google.com/p/airbag/), or just an improvement of Gnome bug-buddy ?
I hate bug buddy because it allows me to report a bug OR restart the application. Usually I want both.
automated problem reports Posted Sep 29, 2006 10:02 UTC (Fri) by Frej (subscriber, #4165) [Link] 'automated' is pretty far away from reality.
I have to 1) create an account
Bug-buddy in 2.16 is leaps and bounds ahead of this, all you need to is
But ubuntu is growing it's own ecosystem, like any other distro (ick!) - for edgy the méme should have been "Not invented here".
The one thing i hate most about ubuntu is launchpad. Granted, bugzilla is hard - but then fix that instead?
automated problem reports Posted Sep 29, 2006 16:41 UTC (Fri) by elicriffield (subscriber, #33738) [Link]
One of the best things about ubuntu is launchpad. Its not exactly something you could upgrade bugzilla to do, it goes in a different direction which wouldn't work for places that want bugzilla. The way it ties together packages and maintainers and dependencies on other packages only works with a debian based system and that's what makes it great.
Eli
automated problem reports Posted Sep 29, 2006 18:32 UTC (Fri) by Halmonster (subscriber, #4537) [Link] And yet, Launchpad is not Free Software. Canonical claims they plan on releasing it eventually, but they have not yet done so. See
and scroll a little more than halfway down.
Hal
P.S. I run Ubuntu on my desktop, my two laptops, and my firewall. I also call a spade a spade.
What's an eft? Posted Oct 3, 2006 17:49 UTC (Tue) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link] Since they didn't tell you, I will. Apparently an eft is a baby newt.Since human skin oils are apparently toxic to them, you can understand why they might get edgy.
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