Ubuntu 10.04

Sorry, I had to make a post on this, since it is two days till RTM.

It seems to be shaping up to be an interesting release.

Radically new default theme (ZOMG window controls on the left), shiny new boot loader (Plymouth), kernel-mode setting (for some video drivers), and a improved Software Center that is actually quite usable.

Anyone planning on downloading/using it? (I already am.) More importantly, anyone planning on baking me some Ubuntu cookies? 

I've been using it since the first beta--  even back then, it was the best Ubuntu release yet.  Fast, stable...  this one might actually be worthy of calling a Long Term Support release (the last one wasn't, thanks to some changes they made before the software they switched to was ready).

CannotResolveSymbol said:

I've been using it since the first beta--  even back then, it was the best Ubuntu release yet.  Fast, stable...  this one might actually be worthy of calling a Long Term Support release (the last one wasn't, thanks to some changes they made before the software they switched to was ready).

wow, so u'll be able to use this for 6 months now?

Have you seen this "Can it blend" thing on YouTube? I see ubuntu as that, a bunch of other OSes blended together ( gUI ) in the worst possible way... and now, the buttons on the left by default... probably change for sake of change and nothing else. "Yeah, let us be different."

I find it major "lolwtfbbq".

turrican said:

Have you seen this "Can it blend" thing on YouTube? I see ubuntu as that, a bunch of other OSes blended together ( gUI ) in the worst possible way... and now, the buttons on the left by default... probably change for sake of change and nothing else. "Yeah, let us be different."

 

I find it major "lolwtfbbq".

Yeah I don't know about buttons on the left, but I'm sure the user won't be locked into that. Linux is all about options.

After using Ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop for the past 3-4 months, I have to admit that I have no complaints, aside from it failing to reconnect my wireless connection after resume. And the compiz effects blow anything Microsoft or Apple has away. It's silly, but my favorite part is the animation that happens when you move a window.

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I have been using it at work with KVM. It has worked without problems. It's not my distro of choice* but I have no much bad things to say about it.

(Fedora 13 + Intel Core i5 + 4G + integrated GPU / open source driver)

SharePoint Guy said:

I had a bad experiance with it!! I have a Satellite Pro with an i5 CPU. Beta 1 and Beta 2 crashed all the time. I disabled the nVIDIA drivers, number of crashes went down but still very very bad experiance. Maybe because it's beta.. because 9.10 ran without any problems!

Sorry to hear that. I'm thinking it is probably related to a serious memory leak bug in X.org/DRI2 that affects almost anyone using Intel GPUs. This bug [should] be fixed by the final release.

Bass said:

SharePoint Guy said:

*snip*

Sorry to hear that. I'm thinking it is probably related to a serious memory leak bug in X.org/DRI2 that affects almost anyone using Intel GPUs. This bug [should] be fixed by the final release.

"We got a great deal of feedback, thanks a lot to everybody! This allowed us to push this change into lucid final"

Ubuntu devel mailing list: Re: Call for testing: X.org server update [URGENT]

It looks like it was just recently released.

http://www.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop Edition torrents:

http://hr.releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent(32-bit)

http://hr.releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/ubuntu-10.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent (64-bit)

Ubuntu 10.04 Server Edition torrents:

http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/ubuntu-10.04-server-amd64.iso.torrent (64-bit)

http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/ubuntu-10.04-server-i386.iso.torrent (32-bit)

There doesn't seem to be a torrent for the netbook edition, but you can [try] downloading from the site if that even works.

Bass said:

It looks like it was just recently released.

 

http://www.ubuntu.com

 

Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop Edition torrents:

http://hr.releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent(32-bit)

http://hr.releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/ubuntu-10.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent (64-bit)

 

Ubuntu 10.04 Server Edition torrents:

http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/ubuntu-10.04-server-amd64.iso.torrent (64-bit)

http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/ubuntu-10.04-server-i386.iso.torrent (32-bit)

 

There doesn't seem to be a torrent for the netbook edition, but you can [try] downloading from the site if that even works.

Bass, will this show up in the Update Manager, or do I need to download something extra? Will it do an in-place upgrade?

spivonious said:

Bass said:

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Bass, will this show up in the Update Manager, or do I need to download something extra? Will it do an in-place upgrade?

I don't know when or if they'll push it out so that it shows by default (for all I know, they could be pushing it now), but (on 9.10) you should be able to run "update-manager -d" (no quotes) and be prompted to upgrade.

spivonious said:

Bass said:

*snip*

Bass, will this show up in the Update Manager, or do I need to download something extra? Will it do an in-place upgrade?

It should already show up in Update Manager, but the update servers are EXTREMELY slow right now.

Bass said:

spivonious said:

*snip*

It should already show up in Update Manager, but the update servers are EXTREMELY slow right now.

It popped up this morning. I started the update process before I left for work. How does this release compare to a Windows release? Is it more like a service pack, or is it a major release?

spivonious said:

Bass said:

*snip*

It popped up this morning. I started the update process before I left for work. How does this release compare to a Windows release? Is it more like a service pack, or is it a major release?

It's a bit hard to quantify compared to Windows. Maybe somewhere between a service pack and a major release?

When you upgrade Ubuntu, it actually upgrades everything on your computer (ie. all the software you have installed via apt-get, your IDEs, your games, everything). That is a 'little' different then when you upgrade Windows.

I noticed something slick with this, besides its blazing speed.  When your session is locked, and someone wakes the machine, they can leave you a message without having to unlock the machine.  This is a really nice feature that I would like to see ported to Windows.

-Josh

JoshRoss said:

I noticed something slick with this, besides its blazing speed.  When your session is locked, and someone wakes the machine, they can leave you a message without having to unlock the machine.  This is a really nice feature that I would like to see ported to Windows.

 

-Josh

Yes...  that's a nice little feature that's been in the past several versions of Gnome's screen lock utility (I don't know exactly when it was introduced, but it's not new).  Surprised no one else has picked up on it...  it's not a hugely critical feature, but it's nice on the rare occasion that you do need it.

turrican said:

CannotResolveSymbol said:

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wow, so u'll be able to use this for 6 months now?

this is a long term support release. 3 years on the desktop, 5 on the server. no match to microsoft, but hey - the wikipedia servers are running it