Ubuntu 8.04 Released

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."

Anonymous Karmawhoring!

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]

Re:Anonymous Karmawhoring!

If everybody is getting their Linux on, who is manning the internet?!?!

No, Hairy Hadron.

No, it's Hairy Hadron, which is actually a new kind of subatomic particle predicted by stringy-hair theory. It's the particle that makes hippies and geeks smell the way they do. It can also give you telapathetic powers. People will know you're pathetic before you even walk into the room.

Re:No, Hairy Hadron.

Man, fucking patchouli. The only substance known to man that can make BO smell WORSE. It's like it highlights the BO, circles it and draws little arrows pointing to it, just in case you missed it.

Whats that sound I hear?

Its as if thousands of bittorrent peers suddenly started connecting at once.

Re:Whats that sound I hear?

No, it's the sound of UbuntuDupe firing up his keyboard to remind everyone how lousy his Ubuntu experience was.

Re:Whats that sound I hear?

Its as if thousands of bittorrent peers suddenly started connecting at once.

Comcast filters...engage.

Re:Whats that sound I hear?

These aren't the .ISOs you're looking for.

Kubuntu

Don't forget Kubuntu [kubuntu.org]!

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

Re:Kubuntu

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

(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.

Firefox 3 Beta 5? Really?

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.)

Re:Firefox 3 Beta 5? Really?

AFAIK, since this is a LTS (Long Term Support) release, they went with the beta Firefox so there wouldn't be major shocks when Mozilla stopped updating 2.x and Ubuntu updated everyone to 3.

Re:Firefox 3 Beta 5? Really?

Firefox 2 is in the software repository, so it's easy to install. Look either in Synaptic or in add/remove programs.

Re:Firefox 3 Beta 5? Really?

This would be why I usually wait a month or so before I upgrade to the newest version of Ubuntu. I expect open-source stuff to have bugs but they fix most of them; it just takes little time. For now I'm hanging on to Gutsy until the rush dies down.

As for the WPA password...did you check the Keyring settings? Chances are that a config file was modified, switching the default save setting...if I had to guess.

Torrent-only mirror

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.

You can also get it shipped

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.

Re:You can also get it shipped

I hope you donate to the project in this case

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Slashdot should start using Ubuntu's symbol instead of Debian's. Oh and, I'm downloading via the torrent right now.

Re:Started the download 20 minutes ago

Are you using the torrents?
ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/hardy/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent [iu.edu] i386
ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/hardy/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent [iu.edu] AMD64
ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/kubuntu/8.04/kubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent [iu.edu] Kubuntu x86
ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/kubuntu/8.04/kubuntu-8.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent [iu.edu] Kubuntu AMD64

Re:Started the download 20 minutes ago

Torrents don't work at work...

Re:Started the download 20 minutes ago

What's it like when the world revolves around you? Do you get dizzy?

Re:I can't understand Firefox3 beta5

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:I Want My First Personal Linux Machine

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.

Re:Slooow!

Give you a tip. Go to the ones where people are sleeping

This is Linux, not Windows. Try to download from someplace where it's noon.