Ubuntu Linux 5.10 Colony 1 Released 35
linuxbeta writes "The first development release of Ubuntu Linux 5.10, code name "Breezy Badger", is now available for testing. Colony CD 1 is the first in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Breezy development cycle, as images that are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD-build or installer bugs, while representing very current snapshots of Breezy. Screenshots are available. If you're interested in following changes as we further develop Breezy, have a look at the breezy-changes list. Bug reports should go here." (This comes in, of course, as I'm installing Hoary on my iBook.)
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For those wondering what setting to change for this, it is "general.useragent.vendorSub". Change its value from "1.0.2" to "1.0.4", after you download the firefox update for Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog).
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Re:Ubuntu is overrated (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Ubuntu is overrated (Score:1, Informative)
debian woody is at one end of the spectrum, and respected for being there. debian sid and experimental cover the other end.
ubuntu grumpy will cover bleeding edge end.
most distros find some sort of comprimise. the release versions of ubuntu are version number frozen, which is often a good thing. it is a stable release. it is resonably up to date, but stable.
there is also the ubuntu backports project that lets you
Re:Ubuntu is overrated (Score:1)
Also, I did have some specific issues with it not detecting a certain NIC I had (Some onboard NIC, that uses sk98lin as the module.)
Also, Knoppix does have its own packages and I've had a couple of issues when 'upgrading' to Sid.
Personally, I'm using Sid + experimental and the only thing tha
Re:Ubuntu is overrated (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Ubuntu is overrated (Score:3, Insightful)
Knoppix I think is something of a bait-and-switch. If you install Knoppix as Knoppix, you'll find that none of your core packages are compatible anymore, there are no Knoppix-specific repositories that will support you, and at some point, Sid will go out of sync and you'll be stuck. If you install it as vanilla Debian
Re:Ubuntu is overrated (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Ubuntu is overrated (Score:2)
Yes, I know fedora has apt, and I could use aptitude, but apt isn't bi-arch compatible... come to think, that's probably why Debian makes me
Re:Ubuntu is overrated (Score:2, Interesting)
Alternately , Knoppix depends largely on debian's repositories. Id take Ubuntu over that in a heartbeat, Canaonical and Ubuntu support their own packages specifically compiled for Ubuntu itself. While the lag in packages could be annoying to some, it doesnt bother me a
Re:Ubuntu is overrated (Score:2, Interesting)
Everywhere I looked I saw Mepis recommended. Installed Mepis, *loved* it until I found out I couldn't get KDE 3.4 without some tricky repository stuff. Tried that, worked okay, but I realised this would happen again next time KDE updated... so I installed Kubuntu.
Now Kubuntu's version of F
Re:Ubuntu is overrated (Score:1)
Current state of breezy (Score:3, Insightful)
Given that I also want side-by-side 32 bit support on my amd64 distro, and that Ubuntu's 32-bit support amounts to running a chroot, I'm looking pretty hard at Fedora. I don't think Ubuntu's a bad distribution at all, in fact its amd64 support is first-rate, but I just don't care as much for the chroot solution. I still recommend Ubuntu for a desktop Linux; one should just be aware that Ubuntu's Unstable (currently breezy) is more like Debian's Experimental at start and only slowly converges to the relative stability of Sid, until release (currently hoary) at which time it becomes stable as Debian Stable. Stick to Hoary unless you like occasional mass-breakage.
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Plainly you don't even run a 64 bit system, so what possessed you to lecture me about it?
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Umm, 32 bit emulation is already done by the CPU. That's how most people use their Athlon 64's today. The linux kernel by default supports both 32 and 64 bit binaries, when compiled for amd64 architecture. That isn't the problem here.
The problem is that you also need a 64-bit userspace. E.g. ld-linux.so and shared librari
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Yay Breezy Badger... (Score:4, Informative)
My experience with Ubuntu on AMD64 has been excellent on the whole, but with a few caveats of what I wish I could do:
First, when I "apt-get install" Apache2, PHP, and Mysql, and then check out PHP, it says that PHP wasn't compiled with the mysql module. (see the thread here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=28241 [ubuntuforums.org]) Having to recompile that is a PITA.
Second, another favorite tool of mine, FreeNX, is available for 32-bit versions of Ubuntu, but not 64-bit.
But I guess the real killer of all the current 64-bit distrobutions right now is the multimedia support. Ubuntu is doing a lot of things right, and it was easy to install and start using, but it hasn't quite gotten all the way there for me (and probably many other users) yet.
apt-get upgrade (Score:2)
I love "living on the edge," but... (Score:2)
I'd love to poke around with breezy, but I don't want to break my setup.
Thanks!
The worst part will be... (Score:3, Funny)