Hardy Alpha 2 released
From: | Steve Langasek <steve.langasek-AT-ubuntu.com> | |
To: | ubuntu-devel-announce-AT-lists.ubuntu.com | |
Subject: | Hardy Alpha 2 released | |
Date: | Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:16:13 -0800 | |
Message-ID: | <20071221221613.GD7733@dario.dodds.net> |
Hello Ubuntu developers, Welcome to Hardy Heron Alpha-2, which will in time become Ubuntu 8.04. Pre-releases of Hardy are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs. Alpha 2 is the second in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Hardy development cycle. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Hardy. You can download it here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/alpha-2/ (Ubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/hardy/alpha-2/ (Kubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/hardy/alpha-2/ (Edubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/jeos/releases/hardy/alpha-2/ (Ubuntu JeOS) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/hardy/alpha-2/ (Xubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/gobuntu/releases/hardy/alpha-2/ (Gobuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/hardy/alp... (UbuntuStudio) See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors for a list of mirrors. Alpha 2 includes several new features that are ready for large-scale testing. Please refer to http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/alpha2 for information on changes in Ubuntu and https://wiki.kubuntu.org/HardyHeron/Alpha2/Kubuntu for changes in Kubuntu. This is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs. For a list of known bugs (that you don't need to report if you encounter), please see: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/alpha2 If you're interested in following the changes as we further develop Hardy, have a look at the hardy-changes mailing list: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/hardy-changes We also suggest that you subscribe to the ubuntu-devel-announce list if you're interested in following Ubuntu development. This is a low-traffic list (a few posts a week) carrying announcements of approved specifications, policy changes, alpha releases, and other interesting events. http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-ann... Bug reports should go to the Ubuntu bug tracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu Enjoy, -- Steve Langasek On behalf of the Ubuntu release team -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-an...
Posted Dec 22, 2007 19:51 UTC (Sat)
by alankila (guest, #47141)
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Sorry, but I've become rather disillusioned with the Gutsy fiasco, and I'm certainly not the only one. This machine is staying with Feisty until Hardy is release, but I may check out the alphas on my other machine....
Hardy Alpha 2 released
Running this on laptop. A word of caution: fglrx is not compatible with Xorg 1.4.0, so I had
to revert that xorg update back to 1.3.0 to get compiz with AIGLX. That made my system
somewhat of a monster, but it seems to hang together.
This release mostly has just newer versions of software, nothing major that I can detect.
Liked the new gnuplot and the switch to pulseaudio which has proper resampling options.
So does this release actually work? I mean, if it simply boots normally, it will beat Gutsy, and I might upgrade. Once hopes that, being an LTS release, they will put in some extra effort to make it solid this time. Maybe they'll even test it on 64-bit systems as well!
Hardy Alpha 2 released