The Edgy Efts swim to a mirror near you [LWN.net]

The family of Ubuntu 6.10 ("Edgy Eft") final releases showed up soon after the first release candidate. Separate announcements were made for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu version 6.10. Ubuntu 6.10 can be installed as a desktop or a server, although we would expect most Ubuntu servers to stick with the 6.06 LTS release which will still be supported after 6.10 reaches it's end-of-life eighteen months from now.

In the 6.10 releases Upstart replaces init and under the hood you'll find GCC 4.1, Glibc 2.4, Xorg 7.1 and Linux 2.6.17. The Ubuntu desktop features Tomboy for note taking, F-Spot for photo management, GNOME 2.16, Firefox 2.0, Evolution 2.8.0, plus new translations, a new Edgy theme and much more. There are still a few known issues, so check out the release notes before installing or upgrading.

Kubuntu 6.10 comes with K Desktop Environment 3.5.5, Digikam for photo management, a new power management applet which uses HAL, a Hardware Database Client allows you to profile your system and upload the details to the Ubuntu Hardware Database for better bug reporting, new laptop buttons work on most laptops, Zeroconf and print sharing and more. You should look at the known problems in Kubuntu before getting started.

The Edubuntu release features the KDEedu suite in version 3.5.5, Gcompris 7.4, Schooltool 0.11, the tux4kids applications and lots more educational software. The Edubuntu classroom server ships with a pre-release of the upcoming LTSP-5 (Linux Terminal Server Project). Here are the Edubuntu release notes.

The Xubuntu release features Xfce 4.4 RC1, new artwork for the boot splash, login screen and wallpaper, the gxine media player, a new printer GUI, a calculator application and a dictionary panel plugin, better support for users with motor disabilities, plus newer versions of Firefox, abiword, gnumeric and more. The Xubuntu website has been recently relaunched and has pointers to download information. Take note of current issues with upgrading from Dapper to Edgy.

The next Ubuntu release has been codenamed the "Feisty Fawn". Beginning next Sunday you will find the Ubuntu developers meeting in Mountain View California for some Feisty workshops.

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Posted Nov 3, 2006 21:27 UTC (Fri) by cdmiller (subscriber, #2813) [Link]

Well, we run one Ubuntu server and took the plunge installing a LAMP mode server from the final Edgy RC. Very nice install but the first thing we had to do was replace upstart with sysvinit, otherwise the system booted directly to a single user root prompt. Apparently there are some "design issues" still being worked out in upstart. I don't know if they fixed the problem of workstations able to be rebooted into this state with simple keyboard sequences.