Grab it here: www.ubuntu.com/

What's new: www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/804features/

What???

Gawd, for an announcement of an LTS release you'd have thought they would give it to someone who can actually write...

Well, it's way better than my English.


By the way it's recommendable to use torrents, as people may have noticed there's heavy traffics going on.

I'm gonna get it tomorrow hopefully. Been waiting for it to come out officially.

Hmmm, need to see if I got any free space on this rust bucket

Downloading it as we speak.
Thanks for the reminder.

Yeah, it's not like there's ever any problem with the English in our publicity

Congrats to the Ubuntu guys on the new release.

Congratulations for another LTS release. I guess I will give it a try anytime soon.

I like that one:I always wanted to know who I am.

Just typing from 8.04 in Live-Mode. Very impressive release so far.

hmmm... now I am in trouble: upgrade to mdv 2008.1 or to ubuntu 8.04?

You'll never find out

I don't see your point, the sentence is about discovering the appeal of Ubuntu "for yourself", not to discover yourself. The joke is on you I'm afraid.

Who cares?... Not me!.... Hehehehehehe.....

I downloaded both 32 and 64 bit. Hmm dunno which one to try. Laptop has got 4GB so maybe 64 bit is better. But then, the java problems .....

You can install 32-bit firefox and 32-bit java on 64-bit.

Okay... I upgraded my Mandriva system to 2008.1 and it gave me some weird problems which I was unwilling to fix during the next days step by step. Yeah, I am lazy. Thus I did a clean install of Ubuntu 8.04. I think it's time to give it a serious try again.

Heh, the Ubuntu release almost killed the internet - http://www.internettrafficreport.com/7day.htm

Installed the Xubuntu release on a VM a few hours ago.
The installation was painless, building and setting the proprietary VMWare Tools drivers was very straightforward, the desktop is looking very pretty, but still it's not a clean XFCE4 implementation. Why they use GDM and Gnome-keyring in a supposedly pure KDE-less and Gnome-less desktop?
Sudo is working only from terminal (for all other tasks you have to use gksu), and the slim login manager from the Ubuntu repos lacks a sample configuration file, as well as themes.
I guess that both Ubuntu and Kubuntu will be better laid out.

I started installing last night, only just got it working now. I installed from the Live CD, but for some reason it did not install the initrd.img

The desktop sure does feel nice, a bit ugly but more responsive than my Fedora desktop

The thing that surprised me is it has trouble auto mounting usb drives, I've had it give up on fat32 and ext3 external usb drives.

Other than that, pretty good release, would be nice to get network manager with cdma support like Fedora 9 has.

modprobe -r ehci_usb before connecting the usb drive. Then the drive will automount but the connection will be slow USB 1.

Well, I re-installed with the alternative cd so I could have encrypted lvm and now its working, could have been an update, because to me thats a pretty bad bug for an LTS release. Check the forums, many people have had problems.

One of the other annoying bugs for LTS is desktop just crashes and logs me out, seems to be compiz + nvidia. Not very nice bug whilst I'm working

Ok, apparently that isn't it, right after I hit finish on this reply my screen crashed again... Maybe its firefox, that seems to be the common denominator when it crashes. Dunno at the moment but it is becoming increasingly annoying!

Firefox 3 is beta in Ubuntu right now.

I'd check if the crashes also happen when you use a different browser.

Yeah, I've been trying FF2 and I've also enabled proposed updates and got 61 packages, non of them firefox, but kernel/xorg/nvidia packages.

Firefox crashes are likely Cairo related.
I have been using here both 2.X stable releases and 3.X betas (last one being 3.0 RC1) using the system Cairo libraries, instead of the embedded ones. While FF uses much less resources when built against the system Cairo libs, it does crash from time to time for no apparent reason...
Does anybody know how the stock Firefox debs of Ubuntu are built?