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[.Neo]

I tend to agree. While Ubuntu as an OS made great advancements I'm finding it fairly shocking how low quality and feature lacking the platform's software is. I honestly wouldn't know how to get my work done.

[htcz]

Is this Beta 2 or RC? The final version is due 27-29 right?

[painejake]

htcz, on 26 April 2012 - 06:59, said:

Is this Beta 2 or RC? The final version is due 27-29 right?

Afaik final version should land today mate

[painejake]

.Neo, on 26 April 2012 - 06:38, said:

I tend to agree. While Ubuntu as an OS made great advancements I'm finding it fairly shocking how low quality and feature lacking the platform's software is. I honestly wouldn't know how to get my work done.

Yeah I know what you mean, its finding the apps that's the main issue. With the Ubuntu Store they need to show most popular in a more elegant way so people can fins these different apps.

htcz, on 26 April 2012 - 06:59, said:

Is this Beta 2 or RC? The final version is due 27-29 right?

Afaik final version should land today mate

[ZakO]

Growled, on 26 April 2012 - 00:10, said:

12.04 final will probably be the only final I haven't downloaded and explored since 5.10. I'm honesty not into Linux much anymore. Most of the programs I need are in Windows these days and I hate emulation. I wish them well but Linux on the desktop is dead.

Slightly off-topic but from your previous posts I always thought you were a big fan of Linux on the desktop, is it just application compatibility or did something else change? (Unity? Mark Shuttleworths dislike of user customisation?)

I still prefer Windows and use it on my desktop for .NET development, Photoshop, and the numerous other applications which don't have suitable Linux alternatives, but I thought for the first time Linux was semi-decent as a desktop OS (I've been testing Ubuntu and other distributions since 6.04). The only reason I'm considering Ubuntu as the primary OS on my laptop is for Ruby / Rails development, tests which take ~15s on Windows take < 1s on OSX/Linux, while doing TDD and running tests hundreds of times a day this gives a significant time saving.

htcz, on 26 April 2012 - 06:59, said:

Is this Beta 2 or RC? The final version is due 27-29 right?

Final version is due later today (26th). https://wiki.ubuntu....chedule#line-42

[htcz]

ZakO, on 26 April 2012 - 07:22, said:

Final version is due later today (26th). https://wiki.ubuntu....chedule#line-42

Ignore that. I thought this thread was new: I have B2 already installed

Is that a upgrade path going from B2 to Final simple?

[+Mephistopheles]

htcz, on 26 April 2012 - 07:48, said:

Ignore that. I thought this thread was new: I have B2 already installed

Is that a upgrade path going from B2 to Final simple?

The upgrade path is a simple

user@host $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

- this will install the latest packages and bring your system on the same level as the final release.

[+Mephistopheles]

Download link for the 12.04 final .isos:

http://mirrors.melbo...releases/12.04/

[+CPressland]

Mephistopheles, on 26 April 2012 - 10:15, said:

Download link for the 12.04 final .isos:

http://mirrors.melbo...releases/12.04/

Legend!

[+CPressland]

Just finished installing in a VM and installing VMWare Tools, much faster than previous versions of Unity.

Just a shame I have no use for the Desktop version of Ubuntu, I only require the Server version, and even then I'm moving most of my servers over to Arch linux.

[+ShMaunder]

CPressland, on 26 April 2012 - 11:58, said:

Just a shame I have no use for the Desktop version of Ubuntu, I only require the Server version, and even then I'm moving most of my servers over to Arch linux.

I'm just curious, but why are you moving to a rolling release distro for servers? I may use Arch on the desktop, but I personally would use Ubuntu Server or CentOS as a server for its tested reliability.

[simplezz]

Sweet, gonna put the iso on a usb stick and give it a try.

$ dd if=*.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=1M

[+Mephistopheles]

You'd think the Ubuntu website is prepared for release day. Alas:

[+CPressland]

ShMaunder, on 26 April 2012 - 12:03, said:

I'm just curious, but why are you moving to a rolling release distro for servers? I may use Arch on the desktop, but I personally would use Ubuntu Server or CentOS as a server for its tested reliability.

My WebServer - I use CentOS 6. I'm considering Arch entirely for tuning reasons.