That's right, that's three, count-em three major Linux RC1 distrobutions released today.
The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the Preview Release of Ubuntu 5.10 - codenamed "Breezy Badger". The Preview Release includes both Install CDs and bootable Live CDs for three architectures. The highlights include: GNOME 2.12 - very fresh... released yesterday; OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta 2; X.org 6.8.2 with wider hardware support; an enhanced tool for easily installing new applications; a new tool which makes it easy to install support for multiple languages.
Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for your desktop or server, with a fast and easy install, regular releases, a tight selection of excellent packages installed by default, every other package you can imagine available from the network, a commitment to security updates for 18 months after each release and professional technical support from many companies around the world.
The final version of Ubuntu 5.10 is expected to be released in October.
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Download: i386 Preview Install ISO
News source: DistroWatch
The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the Preview Release of Ubuntu 5.10 - codenamed "Breezy Badger". The Preview Release includes both Install CDs and bootable Live CDs for three architectures. The highlights include: GNOME 2.12 - very fresh... released yesterday; OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta 2; X.org 6.8.2 with wider hardware support; an enhanced tool for easily installing new applications; a new tool which makes it easy to install support for multiple languages.
Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for your desktop or server, with a fast and easy install, regular releases, a tight selection of excellent packages installed by default, every other package you can imagine available from the network, a commitment to security updates for 18 months after each release and professional technical support from many companies around the world.
The final version of Ubuntu 5.10 is expected to be released in October.


but this will be released on October, maybe November
Judging by the messages I read on different forums, and the time they got disks for both warty and hoary, I'd say you'd get breezy disks close to the time the next release is ready.
Need to install nvidia drivers though, xorg driver isn't working for 6600GT.
Lots of new releases coming out soon.
Last edited by 127048 on 09 Sep 2005 - 00:27
My only issue with the Press Release is this comment:
Per the DistroWatch page, the "Hits Per Day" rankings are as follows:
1 Ubuntu 2740<
2 Mandriva 1641<
3 Fedora 1312<
4 SUSE 1284<
It IS a rather nice system, I'm using Kubuntu 5.04 personally, and it's working pretty well for me
Yeah, I am hooked on Ubuntu, it's powerful because it's based in Debian, it's cutting/bleeding edge because well they want to be for there test releases, and it's insanely easy to install and get going. It's a solid choice for anyone who wants to try linux and for others who are experienced with linux already.
Then I would have to say you're a bit out of touch.
So would this count as big enough for you?
"PC World magazine named Ubuntu Linux one of its "100 Best Products of 2005". And it has won numerous other awards. A special version was developed by Hewlett-Packard for its laptop computers that are sold in Europe, the Middle East and Africa."
And one more.... that should do it.
Last edited by 127578 on 09 Sep 2005 - 18:42
"HP to ship Ubuntu PCs, serious about Linux"
It's hardware support is excellent by the way.
Any torrents anyone?
edit:
woulda been good to see with the post
Last edited by 14564 on 09 Sep 2005 - 02:16
ps: been running breezy for about a week now, and nothing has broken/crashed yet.
I was going to give Linux a go (for like the 3rd time, each Time I try it I always end up hitting a different problem) but if that's what it takes just to update it, I might just put it off a little longer :/
You can just open 'Synaptic' and press the 'Update' or 'Upgrade' button (don't know which one, I usually don't use Debian-based distros).
As I said above: using Synaptic.
Example: http://tapsa.terae.net/linux/kuvat/rh9/synaptic.png
I installed the preview release today and I must say, it's nifty. Goodbye to hoary.
As far as having to "Learn" linux, Ubuntu is just as easy, or hard, as you care to make it.. just like most any other distro (yes, there are exceptions).
going to try it out and may end up ditching windows altogether (about time really, such a pain in the proverbial)
is it NTFS?
NTFS is Windows NT-Series only. If you're lucky, you might get NTFS read-only support in Linux, since write support isn't supported yet.
NTFS *READ* is supported under the Linux kernel. It just has to be either compiled in or as a module.
Now, as for NTFS *WRITE* that is not supported in any useful manner. Back then, you had a destructive, dangerous way of doing this that would result in your partition table disapearing into thin air. Now, there is a "safe" way that is perfectly stable, but it is irellevent. You can only *edit* files, if they are larger than a certain size, and if in the end, post-change, the filesize is still the same.
Hardly useful.
Now, Captive NTFS is an option (involved hooking up the NT kernel drivers through Linu
Last edited by 125306 on 09 Sep 2005 - 18:15
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