tf1 Posted October 4, 2007 Report Share Posted October 4, 2007 Anybody got any idea when the final release will be? Thought it was supposed to be late September. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 4, 2007 Report Share Posted October 4, 2007 It is supposed to hit the mirrors late this week or early next week afaik. They are fixing the last show-stoppers right now. It is always better to wait a few days and release a reasonably stable system than rushing things and having a rather bug-riddled release that will give you bad pr. Jmho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tf1 Posted October 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2007 Thanks, thought someone would know. I skipped the Spring install (did put it on my daughter's new box though) so am eagerly awaiting 2008 but as you say "slow and careful wins the race" Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted October 4, 2007 Report Share Posted October 4, 2007 It's not been released to early seeders yet, and from that moment on it will take a day or 2. And indeed, it's much better to release a week late than a day (and grave bug) early... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 4, 2007 Report Share Posted October 4, 2007 current schedule is release to early seeders tomorrow, public release early next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendal Posted October 4, 2007 Report Share Posted October 4, 2007 sweet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 5, 2007 Report Share Posted October 5, 2007 Updated the last RC tonight, and I now am running 2008 official!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 5, 2007 Report Share Posted October 5, 2007 ...and gnome is still slow and buggy... *sigh* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVDowning Posted October 5, 2007 Report Share Posted October 5, 2007 I got up early to start the download and start seeding, but it isn't there yet. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 5, 2007 Report Share Posted October 5, 2007 arctic: I've always run GNOME, and I don't see any problem with it at the moment. I don't know what's up with your setup, but...it's not a general problem... and yes, there's still some very last-minute fixes going on at the moment, I saw a changelog for Evince go through a minute ago... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 5, 2007 Report Share Posted October 5, 2007 Hmm... maybe I am once again the one person that runs into problems with gnome. But honestly, adam: I have ran into annoying Gnome-bugs in Mdv2006 (nautilus burner buggy), 2007 (infrequent change of file-ownership), 2007.1 (gdm buggy) and now 2008 (nautilus eating all cpu infrequently; Gnome 2.20 desktop reacts slower compared to Gnome 2.16 and 2.18). I don't think that it is a problem with my hardware as I run fedora and debian testing on the same hardware and there I never ran into these problems (except the nautilus burner delay, but that well known bug was fixed in a few days in fedora). KDE has been very solid on my Mandriva test-systems, but I am a Gnomer (cannot help it) and not that I want to badmouth Mandriva, but 2008 still needs a bit of Gnome-polishing imho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted October 7, 2007 Report Share Posted October 7, 2007 Early seeders just got the word. I started, but it's still a bit slow to download. Incidently, I figured it'd be fun to download the ftp cooker mirrors, so I did. over 54GB in what, half a day or so? (I got both x64 and i586...) I guess if you install now from cooker with network/ftp install, you get 2008.0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qandd Posted October 7, 2007 Report Share Posted October 7, 2007 Early seeders just got the word. I started, but it's still a bit slow to download. Yeah, we were let at it about 11 hours ago, and it has been slow for me, but picking up, should have had it hours ago though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 7, 2007 Report Share Posted October 7, 2007 arctic: our GNOME packages are pretty simple, really. they're very close to upstream, Fred keeps them as close as he can, he's very down on external patches. as I said, I run GNOME only on my system, which is obviously heavily used, and I've never seen any problem like you describe. do you have any idea what nautilus is *doing*? artee / qandd: yep, the initial downloads to early seeders aren't super-fast; this demonstrates the need for early seeding. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 7, 2007 Report Share Posted October 7, 2007 do you have any idea what nautilus is *doing*? Apart from eating my CPU it is doing absolutely nothing (except displaying my 3D-less desktop). If I kill nautilus as root from a tty and restart nautilus later, then the cpu-eating is gone. If I simply restart the X server, then two nautilus processes are running, each using some 45 percent of cpu power, thus I have to kill nautilus from tty if I want the system to act in a normal way. If I knew why nautilus would eat my cpu at irregular times, I'd let you know immediately but alas I have no idea what could be wrong. Back tracing doesn't reveal anything either... I guess I will retry with a clean install. Maybe the bug is caused by some bad packages I downloaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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