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Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") released
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop and Server editions, Ubuntu 9.10 Server for Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) and Amazon's EC2, and Ubuntu Netbook Remix, 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 9.10 in the following press releases: Desktop edition http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-910 Server edition http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-910-server-edition Ubuntu 9.10 will be supported for 18 months on both desktops and servers. Users requiring a longer support lifetime on the server may choose to continue using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, with security support until 2013, rather than upgrading to 9.10. Thanks to the efforts of the global translation community, Ubuntu is available in 25 languages. For a list of supported languages and detailed translation statistics for these and other languages, see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/ReleaseLanguages/9.10 Ubuntu 9.10 includes the first official release of Ubuntu Server images for UEC and for Amazon's EC2, giving you everything you need for rapid deployment of Ubuntu instances in a cloud computing environment. UEC images, and information on running Ubuntu 9.10 on EC2, are available at: http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/9.10/release Ubuntu 9.10 is also the basis for new 9.10 releases of Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, UbuntuStudio, and Mythbuntu: Kubuntu http://kubuntu.org/news/9.10-release Xubuntu http://xubuntu.org/news/9.10-release Edubuntu http://edubuntu.org/news/9.10-release Mythbuntu http://mythbuntu.org/9.10/release Ubuntu Studio https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/9.10release_notes To Get Ubuntu 9.10 ------------------ To download Ubuntu 9.10, or obtain CDs, visit: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu Users of Ubuntu 9.04 will be offered an automatic upgrade to 9.10 via Update Manager. For further information about upgrading, 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/910 Find out what's new in this release with a graphical overview: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/910overview 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/ Ubuntu 9.10 for ARM architectures --------------------------------- Ubuntu 9.10 is available for the ARM architecture. Users should only download these images if they have access to ARM chipsets or devices, as they will not run on Intel-based machines. Install instructions and images can be found here: http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/arm 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, netbooks 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 services, including support, are 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)
Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") released Posted Oct 29, 2009 15:39 UTC (Thu) by qg6te2 (guest, #52587) [Link] Congrats to the Ubuntu team on the new release. I do hope that features such as Grub2 and the new version of Upstart also make it, sometime, to distributions such as Fedora (and by extension, RHEL 6).
Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") released Posted Oct 29, 2009 15:55 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Can't comment on EL6 however there are early plans that Fedora 13 will have GRUB2 as well as the latest version of upstart, not to mention the transition to using native upstart scripts rather than running under compatibility mode.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Grub2
Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") released Posted Oct 30, 2009 4:37 UTC (Fri) by eparis123 (guest, #59739) [Link]
I think any possible Redhat adoption of Upstart is going to be a problem given the Canonical's latest copyright assignment agreement.
Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") released Posted Oct 30, 2009 16:14 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Why? Red Hat can carry patches as long as it wants. Neither company is under any obligation to move Red Hat's modifications upstream.
Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") released Posted Nov 1, 2009 14:32 UTC (Sun) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
Sure, but I think they would prefer to work with upstream - keep things
centralized. That's actually the advantage of the OSS development model, you know... So I surely think there is something to fix for Canonical.
Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") released Posted Nov 6, 2009 14:43 UTC (Fri) by keybuk (subscriber, #18473) [Link]
The Red Hat developers who deal with Upstart in Fedora and RHEL signed the copyright assignment agreement ages ago.
Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") released Posted Oct 29, 2009 17:10 UTC (Thu) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link]
Do I understand right that the -rc and the -release images are identical, and the release was already available for a week already, just under a different name?
Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") released Posted Oct 29, 2009 17:39 UTC (Thu) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link]
Well, wouldn't that make sense? You have "release candidates" and the final one becomes the "release". Putting in one last patch at the last minute and releasing is a recipe for disaster.
Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") released Posted Oct 29, 2009 17:40 UTC (Thu) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link]
I should know, we do this here at work quite often ;^(.
Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") released Posted Oct 29, 2009 18:13 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
I don't think that's correct. I checked my downloaded -rc last night and the md5sum was different. This could be the well publicized ext4 and files-over-500 MB maybe-bug since iso was on an ext4 partition at the time.
Googling seems to imply that they're different too:
ubuntu-9.10-rc-desktop-i386.iso: f9b1bfa64bdbd86f42b51d0cb6fa0cde
ubuntu-9.10-desktop-amd64.iso: dc51c1d7e3e173dcab4e0b9ad2be2bbf
Of course, it could just be unimportant stuff like date stamps... They could still be functionally identical, even if they're not bit-for-bit identical.
Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") released Posted Oct 30, 2009 2:11 UTC (Fri) by richo123 (guest, #24309) [Link]
I had a beta which I was updating everyday right through to final release and their were updates between the rc and final. So the answer is no.
Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") released Posted Nov 7, 2009 18:14 UTC (Sat) by maco (guest, #53641) [Link]
Images were re-rolled TWICE the day before release. And I think again that morning.
Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") released Posted Oct 29, 2009 18:18 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Yay, I'm throwing out my spindles of blank CD media!
This is the first release where System -> Administration -> USB Startup Disk Creater has worked for me. I downloaded the ISO, used the startup disk creator to write it to an external USB disk (careful with that Format button, it doesn't ask before murdering your partitions), then booted from the disk. Installation went without a hitch.
The install process is now soooo fast and there's almost no chance of media errors. I love it. May I never see another spindle of blank CDs for as long as I live.
Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") released Posted Oct 30, 2009 1:20 UTC (Fri) by frazier (guest, #3060) [Link]
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I have an ASUS 1000HE netbook begging for Linux when school ends in 7 weeks.
Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") released Posted Oct 31, 2009 2:56 UTC (Sat) by bobsol (subscriber, #54641) [Link]
runnung 9.4 on a 1000HE now, so you should be in good shape with 9.10.
Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") released Posted Nov 7, 2009 12:41 UTC (Sat) by johnflux (subscriber, #58833) [Link]
I also used the USB creator to create a rescue-stick for my netbook. It worked easily and wonderfully.
I would have liked the software to get the iso for me, rather than making me find and download it manually, but I'm just nickpicking :-)
Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") released Posted Nov 7, 2009 13:20 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Fedora Live USB Creator from the very first release (before Ubuntu did it)
has this capability. It is cross platform as well. It does require constant updates however.
Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") released Posted Oct 29, 2009 20:38 UTC (Thu) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link]
Check it out: Tahoe-LAFS is included. "sudo apt-get install tahoe-lafs" This makes me happy! It was a surprisingly large amount of work, on the parts of both Tahoe-LAFS and Ubuntu devs.
Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") released Posted Oct 31, 2009 7:24 UTC (Sat) by Kamilion (guest, #42576) [Link]
Ooh. Thanks.
Looks like just what I needed. For those who like to click:
apt:tahoe-lafs
I especially enjoy the use of HTTP as a distributed filesystem base.
And check out their News and interesting links.
tahoe-lafs has the best software demo ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztbIwH7gz7o
Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") released Posted Oct 31, 2009 7:26 UTC (Sat) by Kamilion (guest, #42576) [Link]
... Of course, it wasn't until after I clicked post that I realized I had just replied to the person who gave that demo...
anyone seeing excessive logging? Posted Nov 5, 2009 19:33 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
I'm getting >100k logs/sec that look like
kernel: Cannot read proc file system: 1 - Operation not permitted.
I opened a bug report on this a week ago (against the last beta) but nobody has commented on it yet.
I tried turning off AppArmor in case this was causeing the error, but the log messages continued.
anyone seeing excessive logging? Posted Nov 7, 2009 9:22 UTC (Sat) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
You are better off posting this to http://ubuntuforums.org/.
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