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The Heron has landed
| From: | Ubuntu Announcements <noreply-AT-ubuntu.com> | |
| To: | ubuntu-announce-AT-lists.ubuntu.com | |
| Subject: | Ubuntu 8.04 LTS released | |
| Date: | Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:17:20 -0700 | |
| Message-ID: | <20080424121720.GV11757@dario.dodds.net> |
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) on desktop and server, continuing Ubuntu's tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. Read more about the features of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS in the following press releases: Desktop edition http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-8.04-lts-desktop Server edition http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-8.04-lts-server Ubuntu 8.04 LTS will be maintained and supported for three years on the desktop and five years on the server. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is also the basis for the new 8.04 release of Kubuntu: http://kubuntu.org/news/8.04-release 8.04 brings a restructuring of Edubuntu as the Ubuntu Education Edition. The education desktop and application bundle now installs as an add-on to a standard Ubuntu desktop. http://www.edubuntu.org/news/8.04-release The Ubuntu 8.04 family of variants, Xubuntu, UbuntuStudio, and Mythbuntu, are also released today: http://www.xubuntu.org/news/hardy/release http://ubuntustudio.org/ http://www.mythbuntu.org/ To Get Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ---------------------- To download Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, or obtain CDs, visit: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu Users of Ubuntu 7.10 will be offered an automatic upgrade to 8.04 via Update Manager. As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free of charge. For further information about upgrading, see http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading Users of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS may wish to wait for the first point release of 8.04 LTS, due in July 2008, before upgrading. We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document caveats and workarounds for known issues. They are available at: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/804 Find out what's new in this release with a graphical overview: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/804overview If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug but aren't sure, try asking on the #ubuntu IRC channel, on the Ubuntu Users mailing list, or on the Ubuntu forums: #ubuntu on irc.freenode.net http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ Helping Shape Ubuntu -------------------- 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/ About Ubuntu ------------ Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for desktops, laptops, and servers, with a fast and easy installation and regular releases. A tightly-integrated selection of excellent applications is included, and an incredible variety of add-on software is just a few clicks away. Professional technical support is available from Canonical Limited and hundreds of other companies around the world. For more information about support, visit http://www.ubuntu.com/support More Information ---------------- You can find out more about Ubuntu and about this release on our website: http://www.ubuntu.com/ To sign up for future Ubuntu announcements, please subscribe to Ubuntu's very low volume announcement list at: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce -- ubuntu-announce mailing list ubuntu-announce@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce
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The Heron has landed
Posted Apr 24, 2008 14:28 UTC (Thu) by beoba (guest, #16942) [Link]
According to the release schedule, there should be an 8.04.1 release on July 3rd. Hopefully that release will include fixes for the bugs mentioned in this commentary.
The Heron has *crash* landed?
Posted Apr 25, 2008 9:41 UTC (Fri) by ste (guest, #51764) [Link]
Given the unhappy comments I've already read on LWN and that there's already word of the maintenance release, it sounds like this particular Heron has has a bit of a crash landing.I specify what we run on our workstations at work and we currently run Edgy (the previous LTS release). I've been waiting for this new LTS release in anticipation of upgrading everyone. Now I'm hesitant to do that. I've been running Gutsy at home without major incident, so perhaps I should target the next upgrade on that instead?
The Heron has landed?
Posted Apr 25, 2008 10:26 UTC (Fri) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link]
First of all, Dapper was the previous LTS release. Edgy's security support is just ending, it's a normal release. Secondly, there have been a few vocal comments about specific problems with specific hardware, as always, but I haven't notice any general increase of problems. Mainly it seems better compared to gutsy with regards to regressions. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people are probably already happy 8.04 LTS users, and millions are on their way. The fact that there is a maintenance release is simply because it _is_ a long-term supported release, and likewise 6.06 LTS had 6.06.1 (and now 6.06.2 for the server). 8.04.1 will eg. have all the security updates done to that date, to prevent new installations needing hundreds of megabytes of downloads. Also, it does naturally give an opportunity to fix more installer bugs.
The Heron has landed?
Posted Apr 26, 2008 8:19 UTC (Sat) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
I've installed Hardy beta without any problems (in a new partition) and it worked well, e.g. Compiz worked out of the box on my rather old ATI 9250 graphics card, for the first time. However, I will wait a month or so before upgrading my main desktop box. Although Hardy is LTS it's still a little rough around the edges in some places, as with any new distro release (except perhaps Debian stable which is not as easy to install and not as polished for desktop end users) - e.g. Hardy includes Firefox 3 beta, so waiting for that to be released and included by Hardy would be a good idea.
The Heron has landed?
Posted Apr 26, 2008 20:58 UTC (Sat) by evgeny (subscriber, #774) [Link]
> Hardy includes Firefox 3 beta, so waiting for that to be released and included by Hardy would be a good idea. I believe there are firefox2-* packages as well.
The Heron has landed?
Posted May 3, 2008 0:47 UTC (Sat) by kevinbsmith (subscriber, #4778) [Link]
I upgraded my laptop to Heron a few days before the official release. This 2.5 year old laptop was bought with Ubuntu pre-installed, and has gone through each upgrade since. Right after the upgrade to Heron, there were a few glitches, including Compiz disabling the ability to drag apps between desktops. And pidgin has some annoying new quirks. But all in all, it seems like a nice stable release. Not a lot that is WAY better, but lots of subtle improvements.
The Heron has *crash* landed?
Posted Apr 25, 2008 10:27 UTC (Fri) by dwalters (subscriber, #4207) [Link]
I presume you meant to say that you run Dapper (which is the previous LTS release), not Edgy. I too specify what is run on the developer workstations at work, and based on the press release, I'm undoubtedly going to wait until the July point-release is out before upgrading everybody's desktops. For the family PCs at home (which were also running Dapper), however, I decided to take the plunge and I upgraded them from Dapper to Hardy last night. I wish I hadn't. Now I've got audio problems to deal with in Totem (playing DVDs and movie files), Rhythmbox, Skype, and Flash (watching YouTube videos). :-(
The Heron has *crash* landed?
Posted Apr 25, 2008 11:13 UTC (Fri) by net_bh (subscriber, #28735) [Link]
I wish I hadn't. Now I've got audio problems to deal with in Totem (playing DVDs and movie files), Rhythmbox, Skype, and Flash (watching YouTube videos).All seem to be related to the move to Pulseaudio. Fedora is going to have these problems too, until Skype and Adobe fix their stuff to support pulseaudio.
There are already workarounds, though. So it shouldn't be too bad hopefully.
PuleAudio
Posted Apr 25, 2008 22:09 UTC (Fri) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]
It seems silly to me to expect Skype and Adobe to change their stuff for PulseAudio, rather than PulseAudio providing a means to properly work with things that aren't PA-aware. Remember that when ALSA came along intending to replace OSS, ALSA included an OSS compatibility layer. And other audio daemons I've used, such as arts, include wrapper programs so that programs that aren't arts-aware (or whatever-aware) work properly.
PuleAudio
Posted Apr 26, 2008 11:53 UTC (Sat) by jamesh (subscriber, #1159) [Link]
PulseAudio does provide compatibility support for previous sound APIs, including esound, alsa and oss. There are notes about a lot of this at http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup. Lennart has done a lot of work towards making PulseAudio work with everything, but there is a limit to what he can do for proprietary apps. It seems that Skype are the only people in a position to make Skype work with PA.
The Heron has *crash* landed?
Posted Apr 25, 2008 12:10 UTC (Fri) by ste (guest, #51764) [Link]
Yes, my mistake: I mean't Dapper not Edgy. I'm with you: I'm going to hold off for a while longer. I find it ironic, that I specify Kubuntu rather than Debian so that we can be a bit more up-to-date, yet now I'm holding back any way. Makes me wonder if I should just stick with Debain for the desktop (all our server are Debian and I'm sticking with that). I tend to go for the current stable Kubuntu realease at home too. Last time (Gutsy) the audio messed me around a bit. Now that everything is stable with Skype, Flash etc I don't like the sound (pun, harhar) of what's to come with Heron...
The Heron has *crash* landed?
Posted Apr 28, 2008 19:39 UTC (Mon) by im14u2c (subscriber, #5246) [Link]
You know... the last LTS was 6.06, not 6.04 as was the original intention. Now 8.04 is going to have a point release in July. Maybe they'd've been better off just making Hardy Heron 8.06 also, so they wouldn't have the distraction of an iffy release in April?
The Heron has *crash* landed?
Posted Apr 25, 2008 12:13 UTC (Fri) by spotter (subscriber, #12199) [Link]
edgy was not an LTS release. Dapper was the last (and first) LTS release
The Heron has *crash* landed?
Posted Apr 26, 2008 2:43 UTC (Sat) by jbailey (subscriber, #16890) [Link]
When Dapper was released, there was alot of questions about when new installers and CDs would be pressed that fixed known installation bugs. It took Canonical a long time to produce an image that would load on a large number of servers out there. The announcement of the point release isn't a statement of "this release is bad", so much as "as this point, you can expect a new installer image to work from." with all the bugs that are fixed after general deployment rolled into it. It's actually a really good thing for the customers. So, start your lab testing now with the released version, and if you don't find bugs then great. Otherwise, report them (via the public Launchpad or through the support organisation with a contract) and the use the .1 release. (obDisclosure, I used to work for Canonical)
The Heron has landed
Posted May 1, 2008 13:44 UTC (Thu) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link]
What about Gobuntu? It isn't mentioned in the announcement. I've been looking forward to Gobuntu Hardy because it seems like excluding proprietary components is probably good for long term stability and support.
The Heron has landed
Posted May 1, 2008 13:46 UTC (Thu) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link]
So I went and looked for Gobuntu Hardy and apparently it isn't here yet: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/gobuntu/releases/hardy/ (Shows an empty download directory.) Oh well, I think I'll wait anyway.
The Heron has landed
Posted May 1, 2008 14:13 UTC (Thu) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link]
Following-up to myself again, it sort of appears that energy for the gobuntu project is reduced in part because it is increasingly easy to use Ubuntu in an exclusively Free way: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gobuntu-devel/2008-Apri...
The Heron has landed
Posted May 2, 2008 18:45 UTC (Fri) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link]
Following-up to myself again, gNewSense has put out their 2.0-final release, based on Hardy, and less than a week after Hardy went final. Nice!! http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=04871