Jaunty is almost out..

[lee.jarratt]

Hey guys,

Just saying that Jaunty is almost out, it's been great discussing Jaunty with you guys for the past 6 months. The Ubuntu community is awesome, every one has worked really hard to make this a top class release!

I guess I'll be seeing you guys in the Karmic Koala Development forum when it's open for testing :)

- Lee Jarratt

[kestrel1]

Yep. Getting ready to download tomorrow or Friday. Test it out in VirtualBox then overwrite my 8.10 install, leaving 8.04 alone.

[Sprut1]

I will download and reinstall on all machines as soon as I get it :)

[cl333r]

Firefox 3.0.9 is out, pitty this security update didn't make it into Jaunty, therefore Canonical will have to issue updates right after the Jaunty release. Me thinks.

[Technoviking]

Firefox 3.0.9 is out, pitty this security update didn't make it into Jaunty, therefore Canonical will have to issue updates right after the Jaunty release. Me thinks.

Either Firefox 3.0.9 will be a patch in Ubuntu 9.04 in the next few days, or the security fixes in 3.0.9 will be added Firefox 3.0.8 Ubuntu package soon.

T-V

[lisati]

I've been using the release candidate on one of my machines for a few days now. I'm generally impressed and have no major hassles to report, just a couple of relatively minor annoyances which should have easy workarounds when I finally get round to investigating them.

First annoyance: the drum sound that accompanies the appearance of the login screen sometimes gets stuck and plays continuously. A temporary solution is to restart the machine. The second annoyances is on another machine: the splash screen at boot up gets displayed in the wrong display mode, resulting in the monitor complaining about "signal out of range". This isn't Jaunty's fault, it happens with Intrepid as well, a quick-and-dirty "cure" is to disable the splash screen via grub's menu.lst

[JK3mp]

I didn't do any testing of Jaunty but i think i'll try getting into testing Karmic Koala when its open. Good Work ev1 who did though and it is appreciated by those awaiting its release.

[cl333r]

First off I regret that they decided a "drum" sound is appropriate, the last thing one wants is an annoying sound greeting.

[Reiger]

I always turn it off, ASAP. ;)

Oh and btw, there is a Karmic forum now. :)

[MacUntu]

Oh no, what should I do till Karmic Alpha 1? Released Ubuntus are so boring. :D

[kestrel1]

Not long to wait for the alpha 1 of Karmic. Middle of May I do believe.

[MysticGold04]

I think i'm going to download it, and overwrite the 8.10 install on my laptop. I'd be running hardy on it if I could, but it does not play nice, besides there are lots of improvements in Jaunty.. I look forward to seeing what comes with Karmic!

[HankB]

I'm happy to see that the release remains on schedule. That must have taken an incredible amount of work.

Ordinarily I don't participate in the betas, but we just got an Eee PC 901 Friday last week so I gave the live USB a shot. It looked good so I went ahead and installed it. For the most part, it has run extremely well.

Unfortunately I just discovered that it does not mount my MP3 player (Sansa e280) does not get mounted by 9.04RC installed on my 901 (or running a live CD on a Thinkpad T42.) I just started a thread on that.

I see that this forum will be closed tomorrow. There was a thread about that and I'd ask there, but it is already locked. Will a procedure be published to move threads for unresolved problems to the new forum? Will it be necessary to install the full release or will the RC with updates be adequate?

thanks,
hank

[bennachie]

RC with updates should be fine. You might want to download a release ISO anyway in case you need to carry out a fresh (or additional) installation. I understand that you will be able to request that any specific thread from this forum be moved to the main 9.04 forum, and that would seem appropriate where there are recent unresolved issues.

[Darkshade]

Oh no, what should I do till Karmic Alpha 1? Released Ubuntus are so boring. :D

Actually Jaunty was (except for one or two minor things) more stable than Intrepid for me. If the Koala is gonna be like this too they better break something on purpose just for us - to have some fun with it! :lolflag:

[iamhugeinjapan]

The horrible virtual machine bugs ruined the Jaunty dev process for me, but glad to see it works nice on my physical laptop. Pity about the freeze bug though...

[xebian]

The last daily build (for Kubuntu ) was 2 days ago. Since KDE4.2 is pretty much set a long time ago I would expect it to be the final release.:guitar:

[dudeskeeroo]

I think i'm going to download it, and overwrite the 8.10 install on my laptop. I'd be running hardy on it if I could, but it does not play nice, besides there are lots of improvements in Jaunty.. I look forward to seeing what comes with Karmic!

If you use LVM you can easily make multiple installations of various versions of Ubuntu (and other distros) without clobbering eachother.

Whenever a new release comes out, I just create a new logical volume and install on to it. I then update the GRUB menu so I can easily load any version from boot up.

I also have /home in its own logical volume so I can share it between releases.

Cheerio.

[andy71600]

This may be a pretty noobish question, but if I just run the update manager tomorrow will I have the Official Jaunty realease?

[lee.jarratt]

This may be a pretty noobish question, but if I just run the update manager tomorrow will I have the Official Jaunty realease?

Yes, if you're fully updated now, you pretty much have the official release anyway.

[andy71600]

Yes, if you're fully updated now, you pretty much have the official release anyway.
Thanks... That's what I thought. I just wanted to make sure that there wasn't some sort of update flag like there was to update from 8.10 to the Jaunty beta.

[kestrel1]

The horrible virtual machine bugs ruined the Jaunty dev process for me, but glad to see it works nice on my physical laptop. Pity about the freeze bug though...
The problem with VBox was fixed in the latest update (4.2) & Jaunty seems to work fine with it.

[dirtylobster]

Firefox 3.0.9 is out, pitty this security update didn't make it into Jaunty, therefore Canonical will have to issue updates right after the Jaunty release. Me thinks.

I just got Firefox 3.0.9 in the updates.