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Ubuntu 8.04 Released

Posted by timothy on Thu Apr 24, 2008 09:18 AM
from the ok-ok-we-get-it dept.
Operating Systems Software Debian Linux
Nate2 writes "The Hardy Heron has taken flight: it's the second LTS (Long Term Support) release of the world's most popular distro. New features include the Wubi Windows installer and Firefox 3 beta 5. Grab a copy here, and check out Linux Format's overview of the release."
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  • Anonymous Karmawhoring! (Score:5, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 24 2008, @09:20AM (#23182324)
    The server was overloaded; it's back up now, but in case it becomes unstable again... Cached lists of mirrors (for all versions):

            * http://www.ubuntu.com.nyud.net/getubuntu/downloadmirrors [nyud.net]
            * http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubuntu.com%2Fgetubuntu%2Fdownloadmirrors [google.com]

    Torrent for 8.04 desktop version i386 ISO:

            * http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent [ubuntu.com]
            * http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4153415/Ubuntu_8.04_Hardy_Heron_-_Desktop_i386.4153415.TPB.torrent [thepiratebay.org]
                (Piratebay mirror because official tracker is unstable)

    Direct links to 8.04 desktop version i386 ISOs:

            * http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso [ubuntu.com]
            * http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/ubuntu-releases/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso [uwaterloo.ca]
            * http://mirrors.ccs.neu.edu/releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso [neu.edu]
            * http://mirrors.rit.edu/ubuntu-releases/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso [rit.edu]
            * http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu/ubuntu-releases/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso [mit.edu]
            * http://ubuntu.osuosl.org/releases/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso [osuosl.org]
            * http://banner.uits.indiana.edu/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso [indiana.edu]
            * http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/CDs/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso [anl.gov]

  • Whats that sound I hear? (Score:5, Funny)

    by Aranykai (1053846) <slgonser@@@gmail...com> on Thursday April 24 2008, @09:20AM (#23182328)
    Its as if thousands of bittorrent peers suddenly started connecting at once.

  • Kubuntu (Score:5, Informative)

    by Rik Sweeney (471717) on Thursday April 24 2008, @09:21AM (#23182346) Homepage
    Don't forget Kubuntu [kubuntu.org]!

    There are some of us who don't (or kan't) run Gnome...

    • Re:Kubuntu (Score:5, Informative)

      by M0pper (1278632) on Thursday April 24 2008, @10:05AM (#23183206)
      For those of you that can't run Gnome or KDE, don't forget Xubuntu! (http://www.xubuntu.org) This version of Ubuntu features XFCE as a desktop environment, which is more lightweight then the other two, while maintaining most functionality. Alternatively, you can just get XFCE next to your current desktop environment and set it up so that you can choose which environment you want to use for your session each time you log in. You could then, for example, use Gnome or KDE when your laptop is running from its adapter and use XFCE when running on battery power, to cut down the power usage.

    • Re:Kubuntu (Score:5, Funny)

      by Dystopian Rebel (714995) * on Thursday April 24 2008, @10:16AM (#23183428) Journal

      (or kan't) run Gnome...
      Kant runs Gnome, as explained in his Critique Of Pure Usability.

      Kant uses BitTorrent because he asserts that one should download such that the protocol for one's download may scale to serve all downloaders simultaneously.

          • Re:Kubuntu (Score:4, Insightful)

            by AshtangiMan (684031) on Thursday April 24 2008, @05:10PM (#23190536)
            Maybe I'm the only one, but ITunes is a great music server, and I use it exclusively without ever having gone to ITunes Music Store. There is nothing about using ITunes that demands or requires DRM. ITMS does have most of it's music DRMed (or so I hear) but again this has nothing to do with ITunes the music player/organizer program.

  • Firefox 3 Beta 5? Really? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by FooAtWFU (699187) on Thursday April 24 2008, @09:26AM (#23182434) Homepage
    I'm not the kind to diss a distro over most things, but does it actually ship with a beta web browser? (Or is that just an option the user can add?) There's a few things F3B5 just doesn't quite do yet (mostly relating to extensions). I wouldn't want it to be my only choice available via the package manager, or anything.

    (Note that I don't use Ubuntu or plan to use it any time in the very near future, so I really have no idea how easy it'd be to swap things out.)

  • Torrent-only mirror (Score:5, Informative)

    by rmullen (1258212) on Thursday April 24 2008, @09:32AM (#23182562)
    The Boston University Linux Users Group is providing a .torrent-only mirror that should be able to be easily reached regardless of traffic. It's often difficult to fight through the hordes around the other servers just to get a torrent file, so we felt this would be convenient. We also have a copy of the MD5SUMS if you need it.

    ftp://lug.bu.edu/pub/distro/ubuntu/ [bu.edu]

    Contains the alternate, desktop, and server torrents for both i386 and amd64.

    Hope this helps.

  • Fast Mirror (2 gbps net connection) (Score:3, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 24 2008, @09:36AM (#23182642)
    http://193.147.168.122/ubuntu/

    Please, always check MD5SUMS

  • You can also get it shipped (Score:5, Interesting)

    by old_skul (566766) on Thursday April 24 2008, @09:42AM (#23182730) Journal
    Instead of doing the bittorrent dance, I started having the disc shipped to me. You can order whatever you need from https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ [ubuntu.com] - they do a great job of getting the discs shipped, free of charge, in a lot less time than what they indicate on the site.

    I ask for 25 discs at a time, put a pile of them on my desk at work, and they're gone in a week. Here, have a Linux, it's free.

  • I Want My First Personal Linux Machine (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Colonel Korn (1258968) on Thursday April 24 2008, @09:44AM (#23182780)
    I'm running XP at home. I've got two large hard drives, not in a RAID. Were I to download this Ubuntu release, would it be easy to set up dual-booting? What's the best way to do that, assuming I don't want to upset by Windows install in any way? Would I need to use FAT32 on a drive to make it visible to both OSs? Is there a robust method to at least read NTFS in Linux? Would it make sense to install on a USB memory stick or an external hard drive?

    • Re:I Want My First Personal Linux Machine (Score:4, Informative)

      by tomtomtom777 (1148633) on Thursday April 24 2008, @09:48AM (#23182848) Homepage

      I'm running XP at home. I've got two large hard drives, not in a RAID. Were I to download this Ubuntu release, would it be easy to set up dual-booting? What's the best way to do that, assuming I don't want to upset by Windows install in any way? Would I need to use FAT32 on a drive to make it visible to both OSs? Is there a robust method to at least read NTFS in Linux? Would it make sense to install on a USB memory stick or an external hard drive?

      NTFS read/write access has stable for a long time. No need for FAT32.

      You don't need an external harddisk or usb-stick. Ubuntu won't disturb Windows.

      Just download, burn and boot the live cd, then click the install icon. Ubuntu will guide you smoothly into making some space and dual-booting.

      Don't Panic

    • Most modern distros will overwrite the XP bootloader with GRUB the linux bootloader. However GRUB will detect windows and present it as a boot option so its pretty much seamless.

      To prepare, use partition manager in windows to free up some space on one of your drives, then install linux in the free space. As above GRUB will detect windows partition seamlessly.

      If you ever want to revert to windows bootloader, just boot off the XP disk, go into recovery console and type a command which I can't remember but googling will reveal it very quickly (its something like fixmbr).

      NTFS is fine with a driver called ntfs-3g, may not be out of the box but it is usually easily obtainable via an update. In Ubuntu it will be a one-line command to install, same as installing anything (you will love this about linux) as long as you have an internet connection. There will be a general 'install X package' commmand, from memory in ubuntu its 'sudo apt-get XXX'.

      However this will only install the driver, you will probably have to manually mount the windows partition via either the mount command or editing your fstab which is the file linux uses to determine what file systems to mount.

      Personally if its ur first go I would install linux on a spare box to have a tinker first. I went down this path for a year before I was game enough to muck with my 'production' desktop.

      The critical thing is to have another working computer with the internet available so you can look up instructions on the fly whilst you're in linux in case you can't get something to work in linux that also kills your web browsing. Once you have google at your disposal, your issues (barring bad-luck hardware incompatibilities) are all solvable and someone out there will have solved it already and posted a solution for you, often with cut-and-paste commands to follow.

      Have fun, and don't get discouraged - remember it took you however many years to learn what you know about windows, and for the first few weeks it will feel like learning how to walk again. Remember: most of what you know about PCs is actually what you know about WINDOWS, so don't be surprised when things are done differently in linux (on the upside it generally makes perfect sense). But in the long run it will pay off. The great thing is that in linux everything is controlled via human readable text files, no registry hunting required, even if you don't know anything about X you can tell a lot from the config files and tonnes of issues can be solved by a simple and obvious parameter change.

      Disclaimer: above is general linux advice from a Fedora user, I do not use ubuntu so your mileage may vary.

  • Curious about Ubuntu (Score:3, Informative)

    by UberHoser (868520) on Thursday April 24 2008, @09:46AM (#23182826)
    Well more than curious. It looks pretty slick.

    And I am really not asking to be flamed here, but can someone tell me why I might want to move from Windows to Ubuntu? Either for home (World of Warcraft has to run on it) or from work?

    (Puts on asbestos boxers)

  • Features (Score:3, Informative)

    by 99BottlesOfBeerInMyF (813746) on Thursday April 24 2008, @09:49AM (#23182866)

    So from the review there are several new features here that might be of use:

    • - Wubi - for improved installation experience.
    • - Compiz - now enabled by default, for some eye candy as well as an expose clone and nicer application selection using tab.
    • - Vinagre - a new, built in VNC client that uses zeroconf for local auto-discovery. (Man I hope this works with OS X's implementation.)
    • - Brasero - CD/DVD burning application.

    So it sounds like a couple of useful new features and probably more the review did not cover. opefully I'll give it a test run tonight.

  • I upgraded (Score:4, Informative)

    by Blice (1208832) <Lifes@Alrig.ht> on Thursday April 24 2008, @10:00AM (#23183106)
    I upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04;

    I like the new compiz-fusion plugins it includes.
    Includes 3d windows for the cube (Where the windows stick off of the walls), this new "Shelf" plugin, that makes it able to shrink the size of windows to a thumbnail where you can dock them to the side of your desktop or wherever. They also have an "Error notification" plugin which is neat- Gives you an alert whenever any program has an error, and you can specify how serious an error has to be before it notifies you. The notification is just a little popup on your notification area.

    In the new Gnome, I really really like the new VNC client. It has a "bookmark" section to the side, and it has tabs. Tabs for VNC! I love it. The other really useful thing it has is a "VNC scanner", which scans computers on the domain for VNC ports to connect to, and gives you a nice list. Besides that, there isn't really much else great about the new Gnome- They try to keep things "simple" (A.K.A., not much customization to be done.)

    I've had a couple problems so far with Ubuntu 8.04, though. The first noticeable problem was that only one window on my desktop had a border. I.E, if I switched from one window to another, the window I switched to would lose it's border and title bar, and the new window would get borders and a title bar. I fixed this by installing Xgl, apparently I didn't have it.

    The other issue is these odd black dots.. They consist of maybe four pixels making a block. There's about 10 of them in a row on my screen, even when I do the cube and other things, they stay on top of everything. Even in my log in window. I have no idea what's causing it.

    And, finally, my sound isn't working now. But I see a lot of people are having this problem.

    Oh, and one more con- The "Unlock" button for network manager is really annoying. I'm not sure why it was needed, maybe someone can enlighten me?

  • New Icon (Score:5, Insightful)

    by somegeekynick (1011759) on Thursday April 24 2008, @10:02AM (#23183126)
    Slashdot should start using Ubuntu's symbol instead of Debian's. Oh and, I'm downloading via the torrent right now.

  • Magnet URL is for i386 iso is below (Score:4, Informative)

    by Danathar (267989) on Thursday April 24 2008, @10:06AM (#23183232) Journal
    Yes, the tracker is overloaded, but that's why we have DHT!

    magnet:?xt=urn:btih:PKBGTUMADMQD7FXO7PLIZPGWQBLPRTEE

    • Re:I can't understand Firefox3 beta5 (Score:5, Informative)

      by Tikkun (992269) on Thursday April 24 2008, @09:41AM (#23182716) Homepage
      Ubuntu releases based on a schedule (1 major release every 6 months, 1 release with long term support every 2 years), not when software is completely "ready". The merits of this can be argued by better geeks than I (I'll continue to use 7.10 on my desktop for a month, but 8.04 is going on my lappy pronto).

      If you need completely stable software you should use another distro (Debian comes to mind) or wait a month or two.

        • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

          by tolan-b (230077)
          They'll release 3 final to the repositories when it's released and probably reroll the installer CD I'd have thought.

          They could really do with a bit more flexibility on their launch dates though.

    • Re:Terrible. People should know about this! (Score:4, Insightful)

      by Dragonslicer (991472) on Thursday April 24 2008, @11:13AM (#23184618)

      Not 20 -minutes- before the official announcement was made, anyone asking whether or not the ISO on the main page was indeed the final release (which it was) was banned. Anyone who posted a link to the ISO, the .torrent, or even the MD5SUM of any of the files was banned.
      This is because the files could potentially be modified at any time before the official release announcement. If you download a .iso file an hour before the official release, and that file gets replaced half an hour later because of some problem with the disc image, you're basically screwed.

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