Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" Released

An anonymous reader writes "Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" has been released! Direct links for the US install iso or the US install torrent file." Update: 10/13 18:08 GMT by Z : Linux.com has a look at the release, in-depth.

Thank GOD.

[Enahs]

Maybe in a month or two, people will stop bursting into #ubuntu and #kubuntu IRC channels asking "is Breezy released yet?" Now we can look forward to people bitching about the stability of, erm, whatever the new unstable version is. :-}

So, when will ubuntuguide.org be updated?

[Dr. Manhattan]

That site rocks. Got almost everything I could want set up very nicely. I probably won't even move up to 5.10 until Ubuntuguide is updated.

Re:Why do we love Ubuntu

[Enahs]

Neither. The amazing thing about Ubuntu is that stuff just works, usually with little to no wankery.

Re:Kubuntu is also out.

[RAMMS+EIN]

Ditto for Edubuntu. I mentiod both, and a list of new feature highligts, in my submission, which got rejected. It would be nice if editors could add a reason for rejecting posts; it could help submitters write better stories in the future.

Re:Why do we love Ubuntu

[emj]

I would say that ubuntu is perfect for developing, it leaves all the stupid configuring to the people who spend their life doing it and let us ordinary programmers not care about things those insignifaicant things. Since it commesout so often it's very seldom that you don't have an development library that you need, it somehow always seems to make it into the next version at just exatcly the right time.

Now Ubunutu isn't very good on installing games, if you want to do that go with Gentoo which IMHO actally has the best installation procedures for commercial games (demos).

Re:Why do we love Ubuntu

[Aim Here]

The major innovation of Ubuntu is that it has pictures of bright-eyed bushy-tailed cute young things holding hands and smiling at the camera on the homepage [ubuntu.org], after a few refreshing glasses of kool-aid, no doubt. Most Linux-based companies are very reticent about putting pictures of their userbase on the advertising propaganda, for very good reasons [stufflikethat.org]

The Ubuntu folks seem to have have a similar corporate attitude to that Reiser dude or perhaps the MySQL people in their more touchy-feely moments, which may appeal to you, if you're the type of person who falls for bland and meaningless corporate platitudes written on glossy corporate brochures. Each to their own, I suppose

Otherwise, it's just a friendly debian-based distro...

Re:Pentium 3

[WWWWolf]

::shocked that anyone would consider 1GHz computer inadequate for anything::

I've ran a reasonably modern GNOME desktop on a P3-600MHz machine just smoothly without any problems, so I don't think you'll have any problems with a 1GHz machine. Unless you want to play Doom 3 or something.

(I wouldn't consider even getting an operating system / GUI environment that needs whole gigahertz for itself. Would suck knowing that my 3000+ Athlon would chomp 1000 MHz just to run the OS =/ )

Re:Pay attention to Ubuntu

[Alioth]

The names like Breezy Badger are just code names (like Longhorn and Whistler were). In the corporate environment, it could just be called Ubuntu 5.10.

Re:ACPI Support in Breezy

[Anonymous Coward]

Does anyone know whether ACPI works in Breezy??

It's a meaningless question, really; on some hardware, ACPI will work instantly and effortlessly. On others, it will work with some manual configuration. On others still, it won't work flawlessly, no matter what you do to it. Best to just try it yourself, really.

Re:Why do we love Ubuntu

[Mr. Underbridge]

I first installed Slackware circa 1995 - things like X and sound didn't really "just work"

I most recently installed slackware three months ago, and things like X and sound still don't "just work." But that's Slack - it's for people who know how they need to set up their box, and *really* don't want their Linux distro getting in the way of them doing that. Yeah, I'm lookin' at you, Red Hat.

Re:Um, released. Some impressions on the changes

[TravisWatkins]

His idea of "unusable for video" is "doesn't play all my proprietary crap". This is a plugin problem, not a gstreamer problem. Also, gstreamer does releases like GNOME and the kernel, odd numbers are unstable. 0.9 will be 0.10 when it's finished.

Re:Um, released. Some impressions on the changes

[megan_of_wutai]

No, I think he probably means it can't play the video without skipping like crazy and dying often, the performance is many times worse than mplayer or vlc (or I suppose xine, but I don't use that). This being totem-gstreamer.

Totem-gstreamer also sucks for audio. From personal experience, playing ogg vorbis results in it dying with a nice little dialog box (GStreamer encountered a general resource error) if you use the cpu for anything else at the same time. (this being a 700mhz P3, entirely adequate for the media with any other OS/player)

It's typical horrible gnome bloat :(. I use and enjoy gnome, but this really is a framework that isn't ready for general consumption.

Re:Why do we love Ubuntu

[ajs318]

Certain packages can only be distributed in source code form for licencing reasons; mplayer is one of them {LAME and PINE also spring to mind}. Though it should be possible to build a deb file so as to include dependencies for the compilation environment itself and everything that mplayer depends upon {so the compilation is certain to proceed cleanly}; put the source code somewhere sane; and perform the actual compilation step from within the post-install script.

This would finally make compiling from source as easy as installing a binary package.

Re:Question about the quality

[Kjella]

If not because they are patent encumbered or restricted give me a frigging button to press that will install support for these.

That's like asking the seller of water pipes "Well, if you can't give me drugs then give me a frigging map that'll tell me where to find it." There's such a thing as legal liability, and Ubuntu needs none of it. There's more than enough independent people willing to make that for them, there's no reason for them to endanger their project. Remember that unlike Debian or such there's someone with a decent bit of cash behind Ubuntu, and I'm sure they'd love to sue for it.

Ubuntu on Compaq Evo N410c

[David Gerard]

http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fun/n410c/ [apana.org.au]

My email address is in there for any additions and updates.

Re:Why do we love Ubuntu

[rebelcan]

That's the part of the problem with Linux. If you have to go through all that just to get Linux to install, how is "the average computer user" ( ie, your grandma ) going to be able to install Linux?

I'm not saying that Microsoft is a better choice ( use Linux at home, Debian/unstable ), but Linux still has a few things that need to be fixed before it's truly desktop-ready.

Re:Um, released. Some impressions on the changes

[BiggerIsBetter]

No, I think he probably means it can't play the video without skipping like crazy and dying often, the performance is many times worse than mplayer or vlc (or I suppose xine, but I don't use that). This being totem-gstreamer.

No, it just doesn't play video. At least nothing I've downloaded - ever. Granted I'm using the RC version that's been updated to current, but still, I had to install MPlayer separately to even play MPEG videos. That's really not good enough for a user-focused distro - no pr0n == no good! I really like Ubuntu in almost every other respect, but the "out of the box" video support isn't good enough.