Ubuntu 10.04 release candidate

[madokie]

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004overview

Move over micro$haft theres a new kid in town and he is some kind of awesome.

[pokerfan]

1. Yes! Five days till final release!

I've been playing with this release since Beta and I must say that it looks marvelous!

[struggle4progress]

2. I'll download the final livecd. Thanks for the heads-up

[madokie]

3. How are you liking it?

if I may ask. I started with beta 1 and have worked my way up to this and can hardly wait until the final release because it will be the last OS I'll be using. I simply love it. I'm late to the party as I only started using linux only a few months ago and I kick myself in the ass every time I think about how duped I've been by winblows. How much time and money I've wasted on their products but not again will I. The last time I counted I've spent over 1200 hard earned bucks on microshafts shit since '89

[RoyGBiv]

5. You ...

... are my favorite Linux convert of all time.

I remember a few years ago discussing Linux with you and mentioned at the time that I thought you'd really get into it once you got past some initial hurdles. As charlie said in another thread, given your interests and abilities, it was sorta made for you.

I'm glad you're enjoying the experience. That's what it's all about for me. Using Linux made me like my computer again. I do get frustrated from time to time, but that's usually when I start playing with the bleeding edge and mess with compiling my own stuff. My only current major complaint is the switch to the new Grub2 and its integration with KDE. I use the KDE desktop manager (Kubuntu), and KDE and Grub2 have some issues talking to each other.

Anyway ... happy computing.

[madokie]

8. And it's you who gave me the confidence to give it a go and for that I'll always be grateful

I may not know you in real life but in this cyber world you are one awesome dude. :hi::hug:
I remember the discussions we had well.
I also remember how I made an ass of myself over firefox with Charlie too and that haunts me still to today. :blush: Oh how I've learned so much in such a short time. If it wasn't for DU I'd still be sucking bill gates ass and after a post I read here yesterday, sorry no link, about how he's fucked the state of Washington royally I can't stand the thought of him and his product anymore.

Computing is fun again and good honest clean fun is where it's at.

Have a great day Roy

[struggle4progress]

6. I'll let you know when the final release is available and I download it

I have about two dozen linux distros installed in VirtualBox right now, which I muck around with now and then, so I'll have a crude basis for speed and look-and-feel comparisons

[madokie]

7. Great

You are going to love this one, If I was a betting man I'd bet on it.
Peace and have a great Sunday.

[struggle4progress]

9. It's out and I'm downloading it

[struggle4progress]

10. Boots nice and fast

[pokerfan]

12. I'm getting about a fifteen second boot

Not the prettiest boot in the world (brief flashes of text and prompts) but I can't deny its speed.

Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz

[RoyGBiv]

4. FYI: Memory Leak

As reported on PlanetUbuntu, there's a rather severe memory leak in the release candidate due to updates in Xorg. Apparently you will not be affected by it if you use a proprietary graphics driver from ATI or NVidia, but some recent patches to the open source DRI driver are causing problems.

The symptoms will be system slowdown over several hours, eventually resulting in non-responsiveness. You'll have to reboot to clear it.

They're working on it at the moment, but what's likely to happen to meet the release deadline is for them to rollback the version of this driver to a previous version.

For the record, I've been using the 10.04 RC for a couple days, and I haven't had any issues, but I do use the proprietary NVidia driver.

[Swamp Rat]

11. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS KICKS ASS!!!

:yourock::loveya::yourock:

I'm migrating stuff from an old G5 PPC (OS X Tiger) right now to a slightly younger PC (Pentium D Dual Core 2.66 on an ASUS P5N-SLI 775 6G DDR2) running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (2.6.32.x). Since the 64 bit version didn't like my Marvell Yukon LAN controller (same problem with XP 64 on another HD), I had to downgrade to 32 bit... but it's PAE, so I can utilize all the RAM. :)

I need to run Windows XP 32 bit on one HD, but I'm going to dump XP 64 and do a second Ubuntu install to try to see if I can patch the kernel to recognize the LAN controller... or maybe I'll yank out one HD and build a shiny new OSx86 machine... :think:

Any suggestions on the latest and greatest hardware? :)