Ubuntu 9.10 released | The Coffeehouse

Bass
www.spreadfirefox.com/5years/

Newest installment of the Ubuntu operating system is out today. You can download it for free if you feel a little adventurous.

Main page:

http://www.ubuntu.com/

Guided tour:

http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/910features

I'm also taking bets on how long it will take this thread to turn into a giant flame war. Wink

Edit:

If you are trying to download it and having problems, it could be that the servers hosting it are slammed. You can download via BitTorrent, which will be extremely fast:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors#bt

obrienslalom
(2 2 2 3) *3 | 3 3 3

Look at the feature page....and everyone complains about microsoft's marketing.

-Email/Chat
you can use these other products, we'll let you
-Browse the Internet
neat! using firefox...
-Photos
-Music/videos
-Office applications
using open office...
-Play games
-Free online storage
ok, 2 GB
-Software Center
install the stuff we missed, actually i do like that
-Accessibility
Translated, hmm, don't care

ZippyV
Fired Up

Downloading the upgrade goes uberslow. I recommend to do it when you go to sleep.

EDIT: you can't leave it alone because it will interupt you during the upgrade of all the packages with some stupid message as:

Do you want to replace the edited configuration file of /etc/bash.bashrc? These are the differences:

--- /etc/bash.bashrc   2009-06-23 13:52:15.531396069 +0200
+++ /etc/bash.bashrc.dpkg-new   2009-09-14 07:08:28.000000000 +0200
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
#esac

# enable bash completion in interactive shells
-#if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
+#if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then
#    . /etc/bash_completion
#fi

@@ -58,4 +58,3 @@
        fi
    }
fi
-[[ -f "/etc/autopackage/paths-bash" ]] && . "/etc/autopackage/paths-bash"

Bass
www.spreadfirefox.com/5years/

In reply to ZippyV

#Oct 29th @ 2:02 PM

Try using a mirror.

Go to:

System ->Administration -> Software Sources then check "Download from..." to find a local mirror in your area

ZippyV
Fired Up

In reply to Bass

#Oct 29th @ 2:08 PM

I did search for the best server before downloading the upgrade.

Bass
www.spreadfirefox.com/5years/

In reply to ZippyV

#Oct 29th @ 2:09 PM

Well it could be that the all the mirrors are slammed also. Sad

Dovella
Go Microsoft !!!!!!!

congrat. Canonical

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In reply to Bass

#Oct 29th @ 2:44 PM

If the search for best server uses the same selection method as their "download ubuntu" website uses, there could easily be mirrors with plenty of available bandwidth sitting idle...

When I downloaded a little while ago, the download page would only point me to a mirror that was essentially completely down. Picking a mirror by hand from the list gave me 500+ kB/s consistently.

stevo_
Human after all

Nice use of disgusting grandad brown used there.. gets the kids excited.

The tour sucked ass anyway.

ZippyV
Fired Up

In reply to ZippyV

#Oct 29th @ 2:02 PM

It's one big crash fest right now. After the first reboot already 3 bug reports to send out. And just about any application crashes now. Do I want to send a 327 MB bug report to Canonical? Nope.

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

In reply to ZippyV

#Oct 29th @ 3:02 PM

Hrm. I'll stay with 9.04 for a little while longer then Smiley

Bass
www.spreadfirefox.com/5years/

In reply to CannotResolveSymbol

#Oct 29th @ 2:55 PM

That is true. I always pick my mirrors manually.

Erisan

In reply to PaoloM

#Oct 29th @ 3:53 PM

I recommend to try it out despite the problems that ZippyV has had. You will never get any OS installed if you make a decision according how it has worked on other people Smiley

It's 6:35 AM here and mirrors and bittorrent works well. The torrent gives me ~900kb/s and the mirror gives me the maximum 1.1 M/s.

I'm not a huge Canonical/Ubuntu fan and it's not my distro of choice but I have been fairly happy with Ubuntu 9.10 after a month of testing. I installed it on my external hard disk without problems and the system has been working reliably (as did the beta version). I'm disappointed that the new "Software Center" is Ubuntu centric and they screwed up their PulseAudio configuration once again. Overall impression is OK.

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In reply to Erisan

#Oct 29th @ 9:34 PM

screwed up their PulseAudio configuration once again.

I'm convinced that audio in Linux has always been a kludge, and without major philosophical changes, always will be a kludge. Linux audio has always been a mess.

Maybe Canonical should hire Larry Osterman... looks like he might have some marketable skills after all Wink

Erisan

In reply to CannotResolveSymbol

#Oct 29th @ 9:46 PM

Hmmh, I disagree. Personally I don't think there's anything wrong with PulseAudio. Yes, I know there has been blog writings about "Linux Audio Jungle" etc. and no doubt there is and has been problems. If you find a bug, file a bug.

Unfortunately it seems that Ubuntu will get the fix not until Ubuntu 10.04 Sad

Colin Guthrie:

Sound on linux anti fud calm certainty and confidence

Testing Request for KDE+PulseAudio users