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Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Released

Posted by kdawson on Thu Apr 19, 2007 09:51 AM
from the have-at-it dept.
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Lots of readers told us about the official release of Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn (screenshots here for Ubuntu and Kubuntu). Some readers report that the distribution servers are being hammered. Here is a review of Feisty Fawn. Reader LinuxScribe sends us to LinuxPlanet for the story on a pleasant Java surprise in the release.
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  • Fast mirror at Indiana University (Score:5, Informative)

    by cow ninja (306125) on Thursday April 19 2007, @09:56AM (#18797159)
    Here is a quick mirror: (ftp also works) [indiana.edu]http://ftp.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/ 7.04/ [indiana.edu] maintained by http://www.ussg.iu.edu [iu.edu]

    Go ahead, take our bandwidth :)

  • Plesant Java Surprise? (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2007, @09:56AM (#18797163)
    Does that mean they removed it?

  • Use the torrents, people (Score:5, Insightful)

    by moranar (632206) on Thursday April 19 2007, @10:01AM (#18797265) Homepage Journal
    Help alleviate the load: use the torrents.

  • Old news! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Otter (3800) on Thursday April 19 2007, @10:02AM (#18797283) Journal
    I already heard this from Michael Dell.

  • Thanks Mark (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2007, @10:10AM (#18797385)
    Whatever we think about this man, we should thank him to have launched the Ubuntu Project. This is the first Linux distro that have the potential to succeed on the Desktop and to get some decent market share beside Windows and MacOS.

  • Might skip this version (Score:5, Funny)

    by Rik Sweeney (471717) on Thursday April 19 2007, @10:33AM (#18797737) Homepage
    and the next one...

    Bring on Version 9: Hungry Hungry Hippo!

  • What's new? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by digitalderbs (718388) on Thursday April 19 2007, @11:09AM (#18798351)
    I always find it difficult to get a summary on the new features to help me decide if I should upgrade. These are the results from my searches :

    1. 18 month support term
    2. Better installation, includes migration tools for mail and such from Windows and linux partitions.
    3. Improved wireless support with Avahi
    4. Easier third party codec/firmware/driver installation, including Nvidia and ATi proprietary drivers and mp3 codecs.
    5. Two new games : glches and soduko
    6. Compiz/Beryl support for desktop 3D effects (not default)
    7. Beagle (search indexed), Tomboy (note tacking program, sticky notes) and F-Spot (photo management.. alternatively called G-spot, depending on the type of photos).
    8. java

    sources : blog 1 [sabza.org], blog 2 [blogspot.com]
    I already have all of these setup on Edgy, so I won't upgrade.

      • Re:Upgrade from 6.10 (Score:5, Funny)

        by WheresMyDingo (659258) on Thursday April 19 2007, @11:04AM (#18798267)
        As always, back up your computer fist.

        Agreed about the fist. When upgrading, I too curl my fingers into that well-known "computer fist" as I anticipate what I am about to do. But backing the fist up (usually up and to the right, near my ear) is important, so that it will have maximal effect when I pound it down on the desk in frustration, when something inevitably breaks. Or even if something doesn't, to celebrate. A good way to relieve tension, but it does interfere with typing.

    • Re:Java is not YET Free software (Score:5, Insightful)

      by at_slashdot (674436) on Thursday April 19 2007, @10:36AM (#18797805)
      Ah, please can you take your self-righteousness and shove it up your ass?

    • Ubuntu seems consistently (whether it be proprietary, closed, non-Free wireless or video card drivers or this) just to be attempting consistently to squeeze a few extra percent of the market share at the expense of the long-term robustness of Free software. Maybe the next release should be Sneaky Snake or Conniving Chimp ?

      Whether you agree with what the Ubuntu project is doing or not, there is nothing sneaky about it. They have never tried to hide what they are doing.

      Many of us, including me, have been asking for a long time for a distribution that fucking works. One that does things, out of the box, that every other operating system does. And we frankly don't care if that means that we have to run closed software today. Because as we have seen, the existence of closed software on Linux does not prevent people from working on open alternatives to it. The existence of free-as-in-beer Java hasn't stopped people from working on free-as-in-speech implementations (and as you point out, Java is on its way to Freedom.) The existence of the free-as-in-beer nVidia drivers isn't stopping work on an alternative.

      Ubuntu is doing what a sizable slice of the community has asked them to do, and your complaining about it is ridiculous. Complain about the users if you like.

      And stop complaining about the lack of Ubuntu-distributed new features. Even if no one "at" Ubuntu ever fixed a bug, which frankly is not required by the Open Source model, they do a shitload to coordinate it, and they have done more to package Linux for the end user than anyone else.

      Finally, Ubuntu is going to be bringing out an entirely-Free distribution. So I'm not really sure what you're bitching about. If Free software can't compete on its own merits, then it deserves to lose.

        • Re:Java is not YET Free software (Score:5, Insightful)

          by Bandman (86149) on Thursday April 19 2007, @11:55AM (#18799181) Homepage
          You're so far off your rocker that you don't even know where your porch is.

          Every time I hear someone go off on how free-as-in-beer software is evil and corrupts the precious open-source movement, I just want to smack my forehead in disgust.

          It's the usability, stupid.

          It's about turning your computer into something productive, so it's not a paperweight with blinking lights. Ubuntu has made more headway in organizing a usable system than RedHat, Mandrake, and Debian combined. It is really the first distro that nearly everyone can use.

          Now, about your comments that it is "parasitic", I think you're confused even further. If nothing else, Ubuntu is a way to increase the user base of the software which you say it doesn't contribute to. It gets Linux, Open Office, Xorg, and thousands of other softwares into the hands of people who would never have known there was another alternative to Microsoft otherwise. And you decry it because it encourages people to have choice. You insult the very software that could very well be the cause of manufacturers opening drivers, or if not providing open drivers, perhaps providing working binary drivers, ala NVidia. But then, you're against that, too. To fanatical egotistic closed minded people like yourself, having a binary driver in your kernel would sully it somehow, rendering it unfit to use, so instead you install semi-working drivers provided by people who have reverse engineered the hardware and bitch about how for-profit companies refuse to give away their trade secrets.

          Get over yourself. It's not a paragon of virtue and selflessness. It's a fucking kernel. That's it.

    • Re:Java is not YET Free software (Score:5, Funny)

      by Vexorian (959249) on Thursday April 19 2007, @10:43AM (#18797925)
      Yeah everybody knows linux should stay pushing philosophies instead of actually work. Who needs users anyways?

    • Re:Java is not YET Free software (Score:5, Insightful)

      by nine-times (778537) <nine.times@gmail.com> on Thursday April 19 2007, @10:57AM (#18798167) Homepage

      I don't want to sound harsh because I believe you're genuinely concerned, but I think you're wrong. Ubuntu is providing non-free packages for some things because it's what people want. People want the ability to get easy 3D accelleration for their video cards, and the open source drivers don't do it, so Ubuntu provides the ability to install the non-free drivers easily.

      And yes, "what people want" matters. Making it easy for people to get good performance from their computers will win converts to Linux. As Linux's share of the market grows, there's an increasing chance that various companies will support linux in various ways. The more people are using Linux on their desktop and the more people want 3D accelleration for their desktop, the more likely it is that someone (maybe even Nvidia and AMD) will actually produce Free drivers.

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