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Ubuntu 8.10 has been released
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 8.10 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 8.10 in the following press releases: Desktop edition http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-8.10-desktop Server edition http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-8.10-server Ubuntu 8.10 will be supported for 18 months on both desktops and servers. Users requiring a longer support lifetime may choose to continue using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS rather than upgrading to or installing 8.10. Ubuntu 8.10 is also the basis for new 8.10 releases of Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and UbuntuStudio: http://kubuntu.org/news/8.10-release http://xubuntu.org/news/intrepid/release http://ubuntustudio.org/8-10_release_note To Get Ubuntu 8.10 ------------------ To download Ubuntu 8.10, or obtain CDs, visit: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu Because Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is a long-term support release, users of that release will not be offered an automatic upgrade to 8.10 via Update Manager. For instructions on upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10, see: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free of charge. 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/810 Find out what's new in this release with a graphical overview: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/810overview 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 install 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 (Log in to post comments)
Congratulations Posted Oct 30, 2008 16:34 UTC (Thu) by kragil (subscriber, #34373) [Link]
Not a totally exciting release .. but upgrading was smooth (for my computers) and it seems very solid.
Thanks everyone!
I agree Posted Oct 30, 2008 17:04 UTC (Thu) by leomilano (guest, #32220) [Link]
I second this, thank you everyone, including the larger Debian community and the FS community in general.
I think the Kubuntu release is exciting (there is the switch to KDE4), though I'll have to hold on because of the NVIDIA binary drivers issue ... doesn anyone know if a new binary driver for the latest xorg is in the works? Thanks!
Kubuntu's missing features Posted Oct 30, 2008 21:29 UTC (Thu) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]
nVidia drivers work fine for me, but the lack of Bluetooth is really a shame.
Kubuntu's missing features Posted Oct 30, 2008 21:38 UTC (Thu) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link] I'm sorry what? What did they do to make bluetooth go away? It has worked for me since I started using Kubuntu.
Kubuntu's missing features Posted Oct 31, 2008 7:22 UTC (Fri) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link]
Apparently KDE does not yet support the newer Bluez 4.x stack required by the new kernel.
Kubuntu's missing features Posted Oct 30, 2008 23:09 UTC (Thu) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link]
bluetooth is fine here...
Recommended NVidia blob version Posted Oct 31, 2008 11:57 UTC (Fri) by sebas (subscriber, #51660) [Link]
If you're running version 177.80 of the nvidia binary driver, you should be OK. That version of the driver fixes most of the latency / drawing problems by accelerating certain Xrender operation that are extensively used by Qt and Cairo.
Release notes Posted Oct 30, 2008 17:20 UTC (Thu) by johnkarp (subscriber, #39285) [Link]
It would be nice if the 'known issues' had links to the respective launchpad items. I say this because I'd like to know more about several of them, but its a pain to find the exact issue they're referring to; the bug titles are often quite different from the release notes call them.
Release notes Posted Oct 30, 2008 17:22 UTC (Thu) by johnkarp (subscriber, #39285) [Link]
Well, I guess some of them do, but it would be nice if all of them did.
Ubuntu 8.10 has been released Posted Oct 30, 2008 17:30 UTC (Thu) by BaldHeadedGeek (guest, #1078) [Link]
I'm having sound card issues. Not dead but gstreamer behaving differently and no audio out of firefox (flash). Perhaps the newer kernel but haven't booted an older one to verify, will do later tonight.
I hate it when this happens.
Ubuntu 8.10 has been released Posted Oct 31, 2008 1:52 UTC (Fri) by BaldHeadedGeek (guest, #1078) [Link]
Looks to be the gstreamer update to 0.10.21-3 that is my problem. Also updated to latest flash to fix that audio.
So kernel OK.
Ubuntu 8.10 has been released Posted Oct 30, 2008 18:30 UTC (Thu) by pj (subscriber, #4506) [Link]
On the downside, I had a couple issues upgrading ndiswrapper on my laptop, but on the upside, xorg's new radeon driver Just Worked and video on it is now faster and smoother than ever before - even better than using the old binary driver!
Ubuntu 8.10 has been released Posted Oct 30, 2008 21:05 UTC (Thu) by drotle (guest, #54979) [Link]
For me X was the only part that did not work: no keyboard or mouse after the upgrade. Intrepid assumes a functioning hald. Restoring the old xorg.conf helps.
Ubuntu 8.10 has been released Posted Oct 31, 2008 23:50 UTC (Fri) by alspnost (guest, #2763) [Link] Lovely. And it looks exactly the same. Which is fine, but we were promised more. What's new is that:
Ubuntu 8.10 has been released Posted Nov 1, 2008 5:43 UTC (Sat) by rbill (guest, #54993) [Link]
I, too, upgraded to the new release of Kubuntu. It did not go smoothly at all. :-/ My Dell Inspiron B120 (512 meg) ran just fine with Hardy. Now I have a lot of little pieces to play with. Some of the problems I experienced:
- It took 6 hours to do the upgrade; in addition to the 6 to download,
- After rebooting, Phonon couldn't detect the sound chip and sound no
- It can't find my swap partition even though there is an fstab entry.
- The screen has an annoying flicker every ~8-10 seconds, which makes
- Wireless is partially broken. It can see nodes, but dies if I try
These alone are showstopper bugs for me. And, no I'm not a Linux newbie.
Intrepid sounded nice. I'd really like to play with it. I'll try to fix what broke. If I can't, I'll do a fresh install. :-/ If that still doesn't work, it's back to Hardy for me and I'll wait until to see what happens come next April. And, unless new packages are backported to Hardy (or I compile it myself), I'll be stuck using older versions.
Needless to say, I'm disappointed. A few releases ago, the developers held up the release a week or two because it still needed work. I kind of wish they did it with Intrepid.
So this is not really an angry rant. I realize the developers do a lot of hard work and I appreciate it! Really! Though pitfalls like I experienced give more arguments to those claiming Linux isn't viable alternative to Windows.
some success Posted Nov 1, 2008 22:51 UTC (Sat) by rbill (guest, #54993) [Link]
Following up my own comment, I did a fresh install of 8.10. It went much better. The annoying screen flicker remained, but at least I was able to apply the workaround. Sadly, though wireless is still broken. I had no luck getting working. It looks to be a known bug since before the release date.
Too bad, for me it is a definite showstopper. :-(
Regretfully, I have to return to using Hardy. When I see the bug fixed, I'll give it another try.
I got a better impression of Intrepid with a mostly working system. It certainly looks promising. Based on my experience, doing fresh install over an upgrade is the better way to go.
some success Posted Nov 4, 2008 10:30 UTC (Tue) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]
Thanks Ubuntu, for really improving the Debian system. :/
some success Posted Nov 7, 2008 4:58 UTC (Fri) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793) [Link]
To give some more anecdote facts, I also upgraded to Kubuntu 8.10.
All went ok, no problems whatsoever. All hardware detected all right. Even the compiz 3D effects where working all right (except for some "noise" just after opening new windows and before the window background is filled).
Very nice visual, cools icons, but... I hate KDE4...
To redeem myself, instead of "downgrading" back to my 8.04 32-bit Kubuntu, I decided to finally try the 8.04.1 64-bit Kubuntu, so I can still say I made an upgrade to my system :-)
On the other hand, everything seems to be working on 64-bits as well, after the usual fight with the sound card volume controls.
Ubuntu 8.10 has been released Posted Nov 1, 2008 12:54 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
I had a stone tablet once, but it crushed.
OK-ish on an IBM X31 Posted Nov 6, 2008 10:42 UTC (Thu) by stevan (subscriber, #4342) [Link]
Updated from Xubuntu 8.04 to Ubuntu 8.10. Looks really good. However, I had quite a few problems with pulseaudio and ekiga, and eventually ended up removing pulseaudio from the system.
On a related note, I am troubled at the apparent hatred of many aspects of Canonical and Ubuntu, as though their offering was some right or natural state of being. Clearly Ubuntu has done a lot right, and equally clearly some people seem to resent some aspect of this, or see some fearful negative hidden to the rest of us.
I remain grateful for the entire ecosystem that results in work like Ubuntu, and for the freedoms it seems to me it still allows better than most corporate-backed options. It distresses me that we see such negative polarisation.
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Some free graphics driver advances Posted Nov 13, 2008 18:13 UTC (Thu) by anton (guest, #25547) [Link] Two months ago I got a Dell 3008WFP 2560x1600 display and then I bought a Sapphire Radeon X1650Pro to drive it, and I did manage to get this combo to work with Debian Lenny (with minimal effort), but without hardware 3D acceleration.I also tried various Live CDs, and many of them failed totally, while others gave me less resolution than the display and graphics card support. So I gave the Ubuntu 8.10 Live CD a spin, and it managed the full resolution using the free radeon driver (without any help from me), and also supports 3D acceleration. I had a problem with the mouse pointer that made the whole thing hard to use, but I hope that users of more modern mice (mine is a PS/2 three-button mouse from Logitech) won't be affected. In conclusion, despite Ubuntu's reputation as supporting proprietary drivers, this is the first Live CD I have tried that delivers the free drivers that work that well with the hardware above.
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