Ubuntu version 7.04 - Feisty Fawn - 4/19/2007

[CarlosinFL]

I tried searching on here but could not find anything and there is no set calender of anything of that nature so I decided to just ask here in the water cooler area if anyone is expecting the 7.04 release this TH or is there a estimated date this new release will launch or be final? I understand that nobody can be 100% sure until the thing is released however I would assume there is a estimated release date.

Thanks all and if this is already been covered, feel free to close and PM me so I can find the info.

- Carlos

[PartisanEntity]

As far as I have read here on the forum it is to be released this Thursday, 19th.

[CarlosinFL]

OK - That seems to be the only data I found via a Google search. I hope they offer the alternative CD that day as I need to install with RAID 5 or 6 which so far has only been available on the "Alternative CD's" unless they now have just built that into the regular .ISO.

[Rui Pais]

after a rc been deleted due to a serious bug found on kernel but the issue end up solved very fast, seems that the release date got back to the original 19th April.

check main page for Ubuntu... it's got a countdown now. :)

[prizrak]

I think the alternative CD's are posted same time as the lives.

[daynah]

Oh my goodness! Now you have a BIG HUGE ORANGE reminder.

[ubuntu-geek]

From: http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu704


Latest Ubuntu delivers on the promise of Open Source

While millions consider whether to pay for Vista, the Ubuntu project releases its secure, high performance, free desktop and server editions.

LONDON, April 16, 2007 – For users wanting a secure, feature rich alternative to Microsoft Windows, Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today the Thursday release of Ubuntu version 7.04.
Ubuntu is the award-winning Linux distribution for the desktop (http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntudesktop704), laptop, thin client and server (http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntuserver704) which brings together the best of open source software every 6 months. Ubuntu 7.04 desktop edition includes a ground-breaking Windows migration assistant, excellent wireless networking support and improved multimedia support.
Ubuntu 7.04 server edition (http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntuserver704) adds support for hardware facilities that speed up the use of virtual machines as well as other improved hardware support, making it an excellent choice as a web, database, file and print server, the fastest growing area of Linux server use. Ubuntu's already outstanding support for thin clients is boosted with advanced print and sound support.
"In the coming months, many individuals and businesses will be making the decision to upgrade their existing computer systems and their operating systems," said Jane Silber, director of Operations, Canonical Ltd. "With added features to both the desktop and server editions, Ubuntu 7.04 is the most user-friendly version to date and is ideally suited to anyone who wants to make the switch to Linux and join the community of Ubuntu users. In fact, with this version of Ubuntu, it is easier than ever to move away from proprietary platforms."
At the same time as Ubuntu, the project also will release new versions of Kubuntu and Edubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntuflavours704), specialized versions of Ubuntu which include the KDE desktop environment and educational applications, respectively.
Ubuntu Fully Supported

Used by businesses, home users, schools and governments around the world, upgrades to new releases will always be free of charge. Ubuntu 7.04 will be maintained for 18 months on both the desktop and on the server, and additional free support is available from the thriving Ubuntu community. For deployments which require additional service guarantees, full telephone and online support is commercially available globally from the professional support team at Canonical Ltd and service partners.

About Canonical and Ubuntu

Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, is headquartered in Europe and is committed to the development, distribution and support of open source software products and communities. World-class 24x7 commercial support for Ubuntu is available through Canonical's global support team and partners. Since its launch in October 2004 Ubuntu has become one of the most highly regarded Linux distributions with millions of users around the world. Ubuntu will always be free to download, free to use and free to distribute to others. With these goals in mind, Ubuntu aims to be the most widely used Linux system, and is the centre of a global open source software ecosystem.
Download Ubuntu from www.ubuntu.com/download (http://www.ubuntu.com/download). To learn about commercial support for Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu, please see www.canonical.com/support (http://www.canonical.com/support). For more information visit www.canonical.com (http://www.canonical.com/) or www.ubuntu.com (http://www.ubuntu.com/).
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Contact:
Bill Baker, Baker Communications Group, 860-350-9100, pr@canonical.com

[CarlosinFL]

Thanks all!

[wfox]

and what about shipit? is 7.04 for Xubuntu?

sorry for my english.

[earobinson]

I dont think Xubuntu is included, you can always install ubuntu then do a
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

[kingy89]

Xubuntu and Edubuntu 7.04 are coming out on thursday too i believe.

[Nolander]

and what about shipit? is 7.04 for Xubuntu?


finally. im sssssssssssssso happy thay decided to do that.

:D Smiles Nolander

[andrewabc]

Where is official RC?
All I can find is the April 15 daily... When will it be official that April 15 daily is the RC? I don't want to download the wrong RC to test out.
I say this because I only want Live cd RC, I wont be installing ubuntu, so I won't be getting updates to make sure I have proper RC.
Maybe put a link to the official RC downloads in first post?

I'll be downloading 7.04 final when it is released also... just want to test out official RC now.

[kpkeerthi]

There will be *ubuntu on April 19th

[Azathoth_]

Where is official RC?
All I can find is the April 15 daily... When will it be official that April 15 daily is the RC? I don't want to download the wrong RC to test out.
I say this because I only want Live cd RC, I wont be installing ubuntu, so I won't be getting updates to make sure I have proper RC.
Maybe put a link to the official RC downloads in first post?

I'll be downloading 7.04 final when it is released also... just want to test out official RC now.

There is NO RC, and this new is Official... we will have it on Thursday :D :D :D

[rivethead]

I cant wait to check it out, i was very impressed with Dapper to Edgy.

[onlybui]

Wonder if the upgrade will work flawlessly...

[lionel47]

I am excited about the Feisty release. I reinstalled Ubuntu a couple of weeks ago after about 18 months of not playing with Linux and was really impressed. So far, I have been using Edgy as my primary desktop. Unfortunately, because of M$'s refusal to use open document formats, I have to reboot into ******* to write documents and presentations. No matter what anyone says OO.Org and AbiWord just don't translate M$ Word and PowerPoint presentations correctly.

Having said that, has anyone had any success with Windows on a virtual machine?

[Old Pink]

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeistyReleaseSchedule (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeistyReleaseSchedule)

- Constantly updated

[palmerthegeek]

Todo for Thrusday: April 19,

Get my extra hot, skim venti full of ubuntu Feisty Fawn!

Then drink deeply.....

[cody50]

I think this excitement from everyone is a great thing for the community. New software should be fun! Ubuntu and Linux in general are heading in a great direction. Everyone who is using bitTorrent make sure you Seed so everyone can get their copy.

[BarfBag]

I wasn't too impressed with the beta. The one click installation of the nVidia driver was cool, but the warning messages were annoying. Also, for some reason, it kept disconnecting and reconnecting my internet. I ran into a bunch of other bugs as well (which I reported). I'm going to try this out anyway. I hope they cleared these things up.

[cstudent]

April 19th is my birthday. So this is a little b-day present to myself. But like most of my presents, I got it early. I've been running Feisty on my laptop and main desktop since the Alpha release. :D

[stmiller]

I wasn't too impressed with the beta. The one click installation of the nVidia driver was cool, but the warning messages were annoying. Also, for some reason, it kept disconnecting and reconnecting my internet. I ran into a bunch of other bugs as well (which I reported). I'm going to try this out anyway. I hope they cleared these things up.

The network manager bug was the reason for the recent delay. But that will be fixed for the final.

[detyabozhye]

Having said that, has anyone had any success with Windows on a virtual machine?

Yeah, VirtualBox (http://virtualbox.org) is really nice and was easier for me to set up than VMWare or any other I've tried.

[volksolwagen57]

yeah, i'm glad the network manager bug has been fixed. it's been that thing that i never wanted to touch because it is so...mysterious. i just know that the update will go flawlessly. awesome job, guys. i love ya, you know, like a brother or something.

[currentshades]

This is wonderful news! I've been using the beta and am truly content with this solid distro! I started with 6.06 and have followed Ubuntu since then (of course, with some frustrations along the way). Anyways, I just want to express some appreciation to the people putting in the hard work of testing, coding, and of course, to the incredible help from all of you here! More people need to at least try this, so I'm always putting in good words to get others to try Ubuntu or at least Linux in general! ^_^

[darkhatter]

:( I hate ubuntu releases, every single linux web site goes down :lolflag:

[TrailerTrash]

Wonder if the upgrade will work flawlessly...

Im running Linux Mint and done a upgrade to Feisty and all went smooth. Everything works. :D This OS rocks!

[Jason Weiss]

Im running Linux Mint and done a upgrade to Feisty and all went smooth. Everything works. :D This OS rocks!

I was just about to ask this question.

So I am glad i am not the only one lazy enough to run mint :)

[ebozzz]

Wonder if the upgrade will work flawlessly...

I don't know about flawlessly. I have Feisty on all of my desktops already. One of them broke and I had to do a re-install. Two of them have an issue with the search magnifying glass appearing on the panel once they boot to the desktop. Not a big issue but I prefer that it didn't happen. One is just fine or so it seems. The last was a clean install that has been fine.

On the ones that I had problems I used the command


gksu "update-manager -c -d".

You can also run


sudo apt-get dist-upgrade.

So, beware if you have important files that cannot be lost. I had everything that I needed backed up.

[trav5]

Hi all! I've only been using ubuntu since the day after edgy was released and am using the beta right now. This will be my first upgrade:D Will the updates bring me up to the final release or will I have to sudo apt-get dist-upgrade? I am just asking out of curiosity because right now I am using 2.6.20-12-generic
because 14 & 15 wont boot. I would like to try the update if possible but feel a fresh install coming. So far I like feisty:guitar:

[ebozzz]

If I had to do all over again, I would probably just do fresh installs. And, if I am not mistaken if you run the dist-upgrade command nothing will happen if you are already at the most recent version.

[trav5]

So on Thur there will be updates to bring me up to the final release with the latest kernal?

[ebozzz]

I would assume so but on that I am not certain. Maybe someone else can answer that question. I do know that initially the updates were coming quite frequently and in quantity. Things have slowed as of late. That leads me to believe that we will get a notification that will allow us to upgrade if needed or you can upgrade using the terminal. Again, hopefully someone else will chime in with a better answer.

[vitalik]

Wonder if the upgrade will work flawlessly...

I have upgraded to beta, and everything went smooth, after that just doing updates.

[vitalik]

So on Thur there will be updates to bring me up to the final release with the latest kernal?

Yes updates will bring you to final version, no need to reinstall.

[msak007]

The network manager bug was the reason for the recent delay. But that will be fixed for the final.
It was also delayed due to a bug with certain PATA chipsets:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-April/000279.html

Either way I'm glad both of those were fixed and the release wasn't delayed. Everybody make sure to seed Kubuntu ISOs :).

[xopher]

/me :loves: Feisty

Thanks dev-team! Working great!

..now just to figure out why my fuseiso doesn't mount some .iso-files and some .mdf's..

[kikapu]

Hi,

as i am new to this, i have installed ubuntu 6.10 and some applications of my interest (programming stuff).
I had a hard time to install all these, mainly because i am new to Linux and my knowledge is limited.

Folks here talks about "upgrade" to 7.04. You actually mean that i will go to the "Check for Updates" menu choice (if i remember correctly)
and my system will be upgraded to new OS version without loosing programs, setting and all these ??

[nsleiman]

Well i have same issue, i have installed and configured lots of things, is there any risk that if i uprade the distro some settings will get lost? and again, if i just select all upgrades possible, does this perform a real upgrade also ? will my kubuntu run faster?

[kornhead127]

I've been using Ubuntu since Dapper was released and I love it. I'll never go back to wind0ze.

Now, one question that I'm not all clear on. I've been running the Feisty beta, but on thursday will I be able to download the alternate CD and do the upgrades or wil I think I have the latest version? :confused: I don't have internet so my only source of upgrades are these alternate cd's which are great and I haven't seen another distro with the option. Ubuntu rocks! :guitar:

[doctorj]

I am new to these things having just installed Ubuntu 6.10. Is there any way to gain the benefit from the new release, or do we have to reinstall over again?

[silverpig]

I am new to these things having just installed Ubuntu 6.10. Is there any way to gain the benefit from the new release, or do we have to reinstall over again?

You will be able to upgrade using the update manager.

[CornMaster]

Hi,

as i am new to this, i have installed ubuntu 6.10 and some applications of my interest (programming stuff).
I had a hard time to install all these, mainly because i am new to Linux and my knowledge is limited.

If you have everything working, and you look at the new feature list, and nothing tickles your fancy, then I wouldn't bother with the upgrade. I've been running 6.06 on two computers since it came out. One has a whole pile of custom apps and servers running so I'm not going to risk updating that one until I know it will work. And then I'll probably do a new install anyway, to clear out the old kernel drivers and stuff.

The other desktop, I'm going to erase and do a fresh install on. Since I have most things on a separate home partition, I won't lose my files, or my settings for my programs.

That is just my two cents anyway.

[kikapu]

If you have everything working, and you look at the new feature list, and nothing tickles your fancy, then I wouldn't bother with the upgrade. I've been running 6.06 on two computers since it came out. One has a whole pile of custom apps and servers running so I'm not going to risk updating that one until I know it will work. And then I'll probably do a new install anyway, to clear out the old kernel drivers and stuff.

The other desktop, I'm going to erase and do a fresh install on. Since I have most things on a separate home partition, I won't lose my files, or my settings for my programs.

That is just my two cents anyway.

Thanks! I will see first the update list and since it is possible to do it, i will do it from there. Although, i have kept notes about installing some stuff i really want (Eclipse, Python, Qt etc) so if i am forced (for whatever reason) to do a clean install, then i have something to help me to re-install...

[koshatnik]

Anyone know what the status of Ralink 2500 wireless drivers are like in Feisty. Wouldn't play ball at all with the Herd 5 cd i tried. Any improvements?

[saxsux]

Just wondering, when will Fiesty be supported until?
Will there eventually be another LTS release, once Dapper becomes unsupported in 2009?

[rich.bradshaw]

My Ralink 2500 works "out of the box" on a fully updated feisty install.

[blazercist]

Anyone know what the status of Ralink 2500 wireless drivers are like in Feisty. Wouldn't play ball at all with the Herd 5 cd i tried. Any improvements?

For some it works, I have heard the gammat on the rt2X00 cards. I have an RT61 myself, but I can't even test it because I can't boot unless I uninstall network-manager, I have yet to test it manually.

[kpkeerthi]

Just wondering, when will Fiesty be supported until?

... for 18 months from the date of release...

[msak007]

Just wondering, when will Fiesty be supported until?
Will there eventually be another LTS release, once Dapper becomes unsupported in 2009?
Mark Shuttleworth himself said Gutsy (7.10) won't be LTS, but gave no indication as to which version would be. But according to an interview with Jonathan Riddell (http://www.kubuntu-de.org/interview-mit-riddell-zu-kde4-englisch) (Kubuntu lead dev) when asked about whether KDE 4.0 would be the default DE for Kubuntu 7.10 (as KDE4 is scheduled for release in October as well), he hinted that it would neither be the default for 7.10 (as it would probably not be stable enough), nor would it be the default for 8.04 because that would most likely be the next LTS. That's the only info I've been able to find regarding which version will be the next LTS, but that seems very likely.

[use a name]

As far as I have read here on the forum it is to be released this Thursday, 19th.

Oh, I'm soooo bad. I'm gonna get Vista the 19th... MUHAHAHAHA!

Ok, I can get it for free from my University and I'll be there the 19th. I just want to try it myself.

[djamu]

i just know that the update will go flawlessly. awesome job, guys. i love ya, you know, like a brother or something.

Yeah right, the damn thing (beta that should be alpha) killed my Raid5 array writing new UUID's on half of them on boot ( didn't write a single byte on it ).
Support (?), guess that company policy restricts free support to questions regarding the location of your power button & alike. The silence is deafening. I think they should get rid of their bugs before integrating new ones.... all my recent links
Edgy> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=394744
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=408350
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=405782
Feisty> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=410136


But as a desktop ( & ordinary partitioned disks ) I can understand the hype of having new easy to understand eyecandy....


If you have everything working, and you look at the new feature list, and nothing tickles your fancy, then I wouldn't bother with the upgrade. I've been running 6.06 on two computers since it came out. One has a whole pile of custom apps and servers running so I'm not going to risk updating that one until I know it will work. And then I'll probably do a new install anyway, to clear out the old kernel drivers and stuff.............


and if anyone asks for the reason there's an LTS version..... I'm seriously considering upgrading > Debian for my servers...

[forrestcupp]

Oh, I'm soooo bad. I'm gonna get Vista the 19th... MUHAHAHAHA!

Ok, I can get it for free from my University and I'll be there the 19th. I just want to try it myself.

ha, ha. I got a Vista upgrade for free, and that piece of dung is what drove me back to Linux. It was an extreme disappointment.

[use a name]

ha, ha. I got a Vista upgrade for free, and that piece of dung is what drove me back to Linux. It was an extreme disappointment.

Yeah, I do not expect too much from it. Anyway, I'm not considering using it seriously. I think it's fun to see how Vista drives people (back) to linux. :)

[bradweiser]

Does anyone know what time Feisty will be available on the 19th? :D

[lionel47]

As far as I understand it, the version that is out now is really the finished product. I did an online upgrade to my laptop last night and I expected everything to break. However, it went flawlessly even though it took about an hour and a half. I am working on that laptop today and everything is fine. By the way, I couldn't find any Click_N_Run (CNR) stuff on my upgraded laptop. Anyone know about this?

[rai4shu2]

CNR isn't available yet. See http://www.cnr.com/

[kahrytan]

I hope everyone doesn't rush to download FINAL of Feisty Fawn from Canonical. I bet Canonical and partners are working hard to strengthen the servers to handle the extra traffic. It will be like when /. posts a new article on new Tech news. It doesn't take much to crash a server.

I, for one, will be using Bittorrent for my ISO.

[bradweiser]

Downloading Feisty via bit torrent will defintely be the way to go. With how popular Feisty has become there should be a lot of seeders.

More seeders = faster download times = :D

[Wikzo]

I can't wait ... :D
I wonder about my graphics card, Geforce 6800, will be better suported (can't se my mouse couser in live mode) and about my Acer network card will work too.

Anyone want to make a list over (good) download torrents when it is released?

[billdotson]

Feisty.. sweet. Only two more days..! I wonder how much more will be supported..
Actually what I am realling looking forawrd to is Ubuntu Media OS (or something like that). It is Feisty but has all the best multimedia stuff included.

[Zyphrexi]

I've always just dist-upgraded... only time I did a clean install was when the drive that had breezy died. Then I just installed breezy and updated to dapper... while it was testing.

The computer i'm using right now has been my main computer and I have ALWAYS had the experimental testing version on it.

/me tested breezy

[vradovic]

u order cd from ubuntu website and there is information they allready ship it to me???

14.04.2007 3 CD

but how if is not finish yet?

[neilius]

Anyone know what the status of Ralink 2500 wireless drivers are like in Feisty. Wouldn't play ball at all with the Herd 5 cd i tried. Any improvements?

Just wanted to chime in with concerns about this as well, using an Asus WL-107G PCMCIA card, which runs perfectly in Edgy but didn't work with the Feisty beta.

Looking forward to Edgy, kudos to the developers! Now it's time to sit back and wait... :popcorn:

Regards,

Neil.

[Floppyjoe]

I've been using Ubuntu since 5.10 and am very impressed with the product and all the work that has gone into it. Great Job People!

[bimmerd00d]

website says tomorrow is the release! Awesome, it's coming early now?

[ardchoille42]

I have been using Ubuntu since Warty was released - switched from Fedora Core. This has been the most rock-solid and problem-free Linux distribution I have ever seen. I am looking forward to Feisty. This distro ROCKS!

[sarge84]

website says tomorrow is the release! Awesome, it's coming early now?

Not quite. It's already Wednesday in Europe, thus, tomorrow is Thursday.

[TrailerTrash]

Ubuntu has really came a looooong way since the Warty release. Its getting better and better. :D

[bradweiser]

Not quite. It's already Wednesday in Europe, thus, tomorrow is Thursday.

So can we assume that with the time zone difference we should all have Feisty this time tomorrow?

[RKCole]

I'm kind of confused here...so please forgive me if I have this all messed up...

I just went to the Ubuntu site (www.ubuntu.com), and the counter says that Ubuntu 7.04 will be released tomorrow. Is this right, or is it just me?

I was kind of curious as to what timezone they are in when the releases are made as I'm in California. I thought that maybe this was the difference. If this is the case, then I'm looking forward to tomorrow. :)

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Take care.

[drew1313]

Yes! Thanks all I was going to ask if "ship it Cds" of "Feisty Fawn" were avalible, but ya'all already answered that Q, so I just wanted to thank everybody for the fact that I rarly actually ever need ask a question!

[DreamcastJack]

I'm so excited about this release! I'm loving 6.10 ATM. I ordered 3 Fiesty CDs (to give to friends like I did 6.06 gonna keep 1 for myself) okay so when its released I just Sudo Apt-get dist-upgrade? or will update manager have it? but I know before I do that i'll D/L and burn it myself..just in case.

[laxmanb]

What about the better multimedia support promised? Can I look forward to MP3/AAC/ Flash support in ubuntu 7.04? I know that proprietary drivers are included...

[frodon]

What about the better multimedia support promised? Can I look forward to MP3/AAC/ Flash support in ubuntu 7.04? I know that proprietary drivers are included...All ubuntu versions already support that, what is include is an easy installation of the codecs but they are not included by default.

More details here :
http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/feistybeta

[FoolsGold]

I know it's a bit early, but what the hey...


Ubuntu Feisty:

The Real "WOW" Starts Now!

:popcorn:

[zonas]

i am runing Ubuntu7.04-Beta i am looking forward to updateing

[palmerthegeek]

Good day all,

I'm ready for the final release! Very exciting release. The beta has been very impressive! Great job to all those who made it possible!! Thank you for a fantastic MS OS replacement!

[marx06]

I am looking forward FF very much. I only upraded last 3 times, maybe I will make fresh install now.

[The Pinny Parlour]

Hurry up already, I want my instant coffee in a microwave now dammit. LOL :)

[becominglumberg]

If I have the nVidia binary driver installed, will I need to do a fresh install, or should the upgrade work?

[edmondt]

Woo just one more day :) I bet everyone is busy getting things in order :KS

[justinlb]

Thu April 19th, 12:04 AM and no Feisty :(

[gusjones]

Thu April 19th, 12:04 AM and no Feisty :(

You're at the wrong side of the planet!--maybe give it another 18 hours...

[zeifertstc]

You're at the wrong side of the planet!--maybe give it another 18 hours...

My thoughts exactly. At any rate, I cannot wait for this release. Though, how many here think the servers are going to be a little slow with all of us fighting over our downloads? ;)

[viper]

You're at the wrong side of the planet!--maybe give it another 18 hours...

Damn we always get stitched...............

[plb]

It's still 10:43am here on the 18th lol. You still have a wait ahead of you :D

[zeifertstc]

LMAO You're even an hour ahead of me. Gee, aren't timezones lovely? Hey, which timezone are we playing with here anyways? Which timezone is the host server in that we're hoping to snag our downloads from?

[plb]

My bet would be on London time since afaik that is where Mark resides.

[fluteflute]

My bet would be on London time since afaik that is where Mark resides.

Nice for me coz I'm in that timezone! :)

[ArtificialSynapse]

Woooo, I'm excited, you guys think I should upgrade or doa clean install??

[Karri]

Just can't wait for this release. I'm here trying to finish all my projects in time under XP to prepare myself to wipe the hard drive clean in a few hours. Goodbye, XP. Only things I probably still need XP for are video/audio/dvd editing. That's about it. For other stuff I'm hoping to use Ubuntu, starting tomorrow :)

[teddybairs1]

I know this has already been answered a hundred times, but it keeps getting asked. If you've kept up with the update managers then you will already have the release version of Feisty come Thursday if you're already been running Feisty as a beta. If you're running edgy, you should probably be ok with doing the distribution upgrade if you don't have a lot of tweaking or programs already on your system. If you're running dapper, you must upgrade to edgy to upgrade to feisty, or else you must do a clean install from a disk.

I tried the distro-upgrade to the Feisty beta and broke my system in the process when the upgrade manager hung after it was almost done. But with my system it had to download nearly two gigabytes of software because that's how many packages I had on my system. The normal download should be around 697MB.

If you think it might kill your system with the distro upgrade do this: 1)burn a fresh copy of the Feisty .iso, 2)burn all of your personal files (important and otherwise) onto a backup cd/dvd, be sure to include any packages or programs that you had to install independent of the repos, and 3)once all this is done, try the distro upgrade anyway. If it works, then it should keep all of your settings and preferences. If it hangs and trashes your system, then you have the iso and backup disks and should be able to recover everything within a few hours. If you have a dual boot system, like I do, there are programs like ext2fs which will allow your windows xp os see your linux partitions and import files from them. One trick I do is use my windows drive to recover my personal files from the linux partition if for any reason I can't boot into it. Remember, just because you can't boot into a partition doesn't mean that your files are lost.

Hope this helps and answers some questions.

[teddybairs1]

Karri - there should be software in the repositories for video/audio/dvd editing. browse around once you get your Ubuntu up and running. You'll probably find something you can work with.:D

[t94xr]

I live in New Zealand. The time is Thursday April 19th 4:07am :( I cant wait till tonight :KS :KS :KS

[Junx]

I am excited about the Feisty release. I reinstalled Ubuntu a couple of weeks ago after about 18 months of not playing with Linux and was really impressed. So far, I have been using Edgy as my primary desktop. Unfortunately, because of M$'s refusal to use open document formats, I have to reboot into ******* to write documents and presentations. No matter what anyone says OO.Org and AbiWord just don't translate M$ Word and PowerPoint presentations correctly.

Having said that, has anyone had any success with Windows on a virtual machine?

Haven't read through the whole thread yet, but you can install WINE and then install Microsoft Office via WINE. You can also buy CodeWeavers' version of WINE that makes this a bit easier (CrossOffice or something, I forget the name).

[thesm]

2:24am, brisbane, australia checking in, up until ubuntu comes out :popcorn: . Looking forward to upgrading.

[t94xr]

2:24am, brisbane, australia checking in, up until ubuntu comes out :popcorn: . Looking forward to upgrading.
Us and a few hundred thousand others lol

Im just gonna time a wget to get the iso, I'm serious, When it releases aslong as i can get the url structure, i can get it done when im not around, i have no hope in hell in downloading it for the day its released.:D :(

[maniacmusician]

There's still about a day left before it's released! Check the Ubuntu site for updates on time. There's a big orange sign that says when it will be released.

Also, everyone, please download the torrent version of the release if you can! Not only will this reduce the load on the servers, if you all download the torrent, then the speeds you get will be way faster than you could get with the normal http download, and there's less of a chance of corruption if you use torrents as well. So please, use the .torrent download. Thanks.

[eyedol]

the date on the ubuntu.com is wrong. It is talking about April 16th Thrusday which is way wrong. Could it be corrected

[t94xr]

Do realise i ment all of them, torrents wont be that fast, everyone will be slamming the seeds for about a day aswell.

Distribution thru torrents also takes time. :)

[maniacmusician]

the date on the ubuntu.com is wrong. It is talking about April 16th Thrusday which is way wrong. Could it be corrected
I think you're misreading it. April 16th was monday, not thursday, and it doesn't say that Feisty is being released on the 16th, it just says "Tomorrow"

April 16th is the date on the article that appears when you click the link, but that signifies when the article was written, not the release date.

So the Ubuntu website is up-to-date...release is tomorrow.

[t94xr]

umm technically its today for me lawl

NZ is the first one to see the day in :)

[maniacmusician]

umm technically its today for me lawl

NZ is the first one to see the day in :)
yes, well it'll be released at the end of today for you :)

[vradovic]

ok. In wich time of 19. April will be online ? and wich time zone?


regards,

[masked_marsoe]

A timezone would have been a great addition.

I'm going with GMT (not NZST :( ), but I'll keep on waiting.

[HighD]

I Can't Wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mrgreen: Today IS the day (well for me at least :D )

[t94xr]

A timezone would have been a great addition.

I'm going with GMT (not NZST :( ), but I'll keep on waiting.
lawl another NZer! :D nice to meet ya man!

[masked_marsoe]

Heh, us two waiting at 5am...
errr.. it's almost 6 now.

And still no feisty!

[SorenK]

Does anyone know if the K/X/Edubuntu releases happen at the same time or slightly later?

[masked_marsoe]

They should be at the same time.

[chrismyers]

Heh, us two waiting at 5am...
errr.. it's almost 6 now.

And still no feisty!

Thats a good point... What time zone are we working to?

I'm in the UK & its 19:00 in the evening on the 18th. There's no guarantee that we are working to GMT either.

Looks like a Friday download.

[cliff01]

So where do they get the NAMES for the various releases?

[masked_marsoe]

I don't know... but I wanted to suggest Angsty Alpaca

[BarfBag]

Another question. Has 64 bit improved in this version? It gave me so much trouble in Etchy, I just used the 32 bit version.

[gtr225]

I would think they are going by UTC time.

[webjames]

The names are pretty weird:

Edgy Feet

Feisty Fawn

Gusty Gibbon...

hmmm
what's next?

Handsome Hedgehog?

[frodon]

5.04 was hoary hedgehog

6.10 was Edgy Eft and not Edgy Feet

7.04 is Gutsy Gibbon and not Gusty Gibbon

They are just funny names ;)

[webjames]

I think there should be a countdown timer!

[gtr225]

I agree, that would solve alot of confusion about timezones.

[ahaslam]

What's happened to the release candidate? I've not seen it at Distrowatch, have they skipped this phase & do you thinks it's wise if so?

[bimmerd00d]

5.04 was hoary hedgehog

6.10 was Edgy Eft and not Edgy Feet

7.04 is Gutsy Gibbon and not Gusty Gibbon

They are just funny names ;)

I wonder if they'll follow the alphabet like they have since dapper, or if that's just pure coincidence. What's next, Horny Homosapien? :D Inate Iguna? Jive Jaguar? (oh no way they'd do that) Wow i need to post more....

[Aramil]

Yeah I tottaly agree with the count down timer!Cant wait! :P

[gtr225]

I'm gonna stay under the assumtion they are going by UTC. On the Wikipedia page about UTC they claim it's the standard time for most things internet.

[bradweiser]

Well if the release of Feisty is indeed going by UTC time, then we only have to wait five hours and ten minutes!

http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_UTC.aspx

[tombott]

What an impatient lot you are :)

I can't wait, not got this excited since Operation Wolf came out on the Spectrum

[clevin]

I updated my beta yesterday to kernal 2.16.20-15.

do I need to re-install with final version? or am I runing the final version now?

[carlosqueso]

just run your updates as normal and you'll be on final

[finisdiem]

I wonder if it's going to be London time (DST +0100 UTC) or if it's going to be UTC. Whichever time it is, i may get Feisty tonight! Ummm... no pun intended.

[webjames]

we're all gonna get feisty tonight! i normally get fast speeds from the Ubuntu servers ( ~1 - 1.5meg/s) how do you think the servers will cope? maybe bit torrent will be the best way?

[webjames]

i've just noticed at the bottom of each forum page it says:


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 08:34 PM.

so surly feisty will be released at 00:00 GMT +1 thats around 3 hours 25mins!

[bradweiser]

Okay, so like I have nothing better to do :D
http://bradfriesen.com/?p=40

[Jukey]

Actually, no it won't. Mine says all times are GMT -4. Its based on the time zone you inserted when you signed up for this forum.

So... its probably GMT

[clevin]

just run your updates as normal and you'll be on final

great, that way, I probably will have very few stuff that need to be downloaded, my home network is extremely slow, can't handle large download anyway.

[webjames]

i've brought my raid card, ready for my raid0 boot partition and my raid 5 home partition! i'm getting feisty thinking about it!

[dvader]

Just one thing .. will the final release fix the problem I now have , that is the eathernet connection needs to be started manually ... It has been that wat since the daily build , just before the beta release

Time zone , Atlantic Canada So when will the release be available :)

Dvader

[black_ice]

i cannot want until feisty started

plz any one here tell me how many hours for lunching feisty ? :)

[BarfBag]

You mean launching? I don't think I'd want to "lunch" it. :lolflag:

There's a whole topic about it in the Cafe. (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=411201)

[black_ice]

sorry for typing error :D

i know it will launched at the Thursday, 19th but that means it will launched at 12:00 AM of Thursday, 19th

[Jukey]

Just one thing .. will the final release fix the problem I now have , that is the eathernet connection needs to be started manually ... It has been that wat since the daily build , just before the beta release

Time zone , Atlantic Canada So when will the release be available :)

Dvader

If its UTC time, expect it in 3 hours 30 minutes

[bradweiser]

I posted a timer for the countdown on my blog if anyone is interested, or bored :D

http://bradfriesen.com/?p=40

[rictus007]

Ok so I will go to bed right now and enjoy a beatifull Puertorican night.....

[FuturePilot]

I'll be able to download this before I go to bed tonight:guitar:

[Tanoku]

Oh well, I think I'm gonna get some sleep. Hopefully it'll be out tomorrow morning when I wake up. ^^

[rajeev1204]

:) :)

[psypher]

well i hope i get to start d/l it tonight, already a bit late but the 19'th is 45 mins away. but that depends on what tz it gets released on. im hoping midnight gmt. i'll prob still be up. doing a ridiculour windows sbs 2003 install cos the damn project planners did plan anything. i got forced into installing 4 sbs nets and then to find out, once the licenses actually arrived, the pack i used to do the install will not accept the oem key. oh joy. cannot be cracked i looked. even MS said reinstall. that prob my fav thing bout OSS. MS Licensing procedures and documents are study guides for demons in hell.
so here's me installing sbs in vmware, on a sweet ol dapper dell monstrocity pwredge 6450. makes it SOOOO much simpler. all i can say is that MS software is sooo irritatingly bloated. sbs 2003, 8 cd's and what do u get??:confused: like a 3 hr install with exchange, isa and sql. and you know what? as a firewall. please microsoft you can just as well keep it.

anyway, CANNOT WAIT for feisty, i've been salavating the whole month.

UBUNTU you rock!!!!
Shuttleworth you rock too!!!!

Howzit from sunny SA!!:lolflag:

[peebly]

goody, goody

Also, thanks Ubuntu, your :KS 's

This forum will most likely be gone in the morning, so see you around forumite's.:guitar:

[mingster]

well i hope there's some updates soon cause firefox and epiphany are both broke on my machine...

at least gran paradiso is still working

[gav616]

tic toc :D

..more uk users.. :)

[Rusna]

Time to back up the files and brace yourselves for Feisty Fawn!

[Mochtroid-X]

Cannot wait to upgrade all four of my machines to Ubuntu 7.04 (1) and Xubuntu 7.04 (3)! :)

[apoclypse]

I'm going to miss these forums. Ah well, bring on Gutsy. :)

I can't wait, I've been using it already but I'm going to do a clean install of final. Only to scrap it a month later for Gutsy, cause I'm gutsy like that.

[JanDM]

I will be asleep by then unfortunately, but I will start seeding the torrent tomorrow :)

So maybe this is my last message in this forum :)

[transactionlogfiller]

Is it released at midnight GMT then?

[galv]

Is it released at midnight GMT then?
Everybody thinks so ... But I haven't seen it anywhere ..,

[Mirrorball]

It's in the Fridge.

[Rusna]

In theory one hour to go.
We'll see then when they upload it to the servers available for download.

[Flashstar]

This has been a great forum. ;)

[JoeCool1986]

Well, yesterday (for me) the countdown on the front page changed from "2 days left" to "tomorrow" at midnight GMT, so that would hopefully imply that the actual release will be midnight GMT. We'll see in 55 minutes either way!

[teutatis]

can't wait.

Have my own release party going on here.

cheers to Mark and all the developers.....

had feisty allready running for 2month but will do a fresh installation as soon as possible.

[daWsOn_s]

why is everybody saying "I'll miss this forum"? will there be another one?

[kiddo]

Yeah, the "feisty fawn" forums will be closed and archived, and a new "gutsy gibbon" forum will appear instead.

[hqo201]

According to the upcoming events panel at http://fridge.ubuntu.com/, it's 1 hour away - midnight in the UK.

[Typhon]

Well, than I won't wait any longer. I'll get it first thing in the morning... :)

[jetpeach]

i have 4 kubuntu machines running that i'm excited to upgrade, but had a question for others - since i have 4 machines i'd like to save canonical some bandwidth and bittorrent the release, then upgrade my machines of the local area network if possible, or if i have to i could try by CD. this way it's faster (not each machine downloads the packages, and since i run kubuntu but also have gnome packages on 2 of my machines each download is close to a gig...) and sames canonoical bandwidth.

so the questions:
1) where are/will the bittorent files be found (including kubuntu)?
2) anybody know how to either set up a local repository for upgrading my other machines over LAN or do people know what package files need to be copied where in order to get things upgrading without having to download more packages? if i could copy the files from each ubuntu and kubuntu CD to a machine then that would work. but although it sounds simple, when i tried this with edgy i just ended up upgrading each machien separately and using tons of canonical bandwidth ;(

[ubuntu27]

Yeah, the "feisty fawn" forums will be closed and archived, and a new "gutsy gibbon" forum will appear instead.


Oh yeah! Feisty Fawn subforum will be closed. I though, they meant that Ubuntuforums.org will be down because of traffic. (Which I though was strange, how could the forum go down in the release date? Only the servers providing the iso may go down... haha)

[daWsOn_s]

Wow, I'm starving :) :)

[Stickymaddness]

*taps foot*

Drat.... I was hoping it would be out at midnight SA Time... Where's your loyalty Mark Shuttleworth??

J/k

Uber-excited! Absolutely can't wait to checkout Feisty! Only 40 more minutes....plus download time....

Coffee time!!

[eentonig]

ubuntu.com is already down as it seems. Can't get through.

Ah well, Since I'm already running Feisty, I don't need to compete for the bandwith anyway.

[Wilt]

I'm not so sure that the fridge means it will be released at midnight GMT...if you take a look, it seems like it is just so it is marked as the whole day.

[sleeperknight]

Do i need to change anything to get to final from beta? I remember with edgy I had to change some things with the sources.list file.

[tgm4883]

Yea, I just went to check to see if anything was posted about it (Im looking for the md5sum) and it took forever to load. Getting hammered pretty hard.

[Azathoth_]

Tic tac tic tac - The Final Count Down

[black_ice]

1:30 hr is remaining for the launched of the FEISTY

any one heard about itis support for wireless cards i saw on the official ubuntu site that feisty will have heavily support for all kind of wireless cards ....

but i found some posts from the testing users of feisty that they had problems with the feisty wireless networking ? ...

can any one give me a feed back about that ? ..... especially intel wireless cards ? ...

[markl187ld]

Looks like it's already reached some of the mirrors. :)

[bmw17]

Awesome, can't wait.

[firelord901]

Can you give me a specific mirror to download from :)

[dangerpl]

The ubuntu page is overloaded lol already... Btw anyone knows a reliable source for Bit Torrent?

[daWsOn_s]

the site ubuntu.com is gone :lolflag:

[qamelian]

Do i need to change anything to get to final from beta? I remember with edgy I had to change some things with the sources.list file.

If you already run beta, you don't need to change anything. It's the same Feisty repos you've been using all along.

[FlyingIsFun1217]

The ubuntu page is overloaded lol already...

No kidding. I can't even get any of it to load :P

FlyingIsFun1217

[black_ice]

ubuntu page is now overloaded :)

and any one here knows agood mirror to download from please send it !

[lundish]

it's overload but still nothing

[StarscreamD]

That is funny, ubuntu.com timeout for me several times..! It must be getting uploaded now!

[black_ice]

according to the counter in this page there is 1:20 remaining !

http://bradfriesen.com/?p=40

how the mirrors be available before 1:20 hr ./ !

[tgm4883]

That is funny, ubuntu.com timeout for me several times..! It must be getting uploaded now!

Or it's being hammered by everybody eager to download it

[onesojourner]

the forums will get smacked with people having Qs and problems. it always happens right around a release.

[Azathoth_]

Good bye Forum :(
Ubuntu.com is down :D :D

[markl187ld]

I don't want to post the mirror link yet as the file is dated 3 days ago so I'm not 100% it's the final. I'm 62% downloaded so I'll post back to confirm soon.

[teutatis]

I don't think that you can crash a site like ubuntu.com by uploading a few images.
even my server would hold this.

and to many views at this nighttime?

that would be the greater success then the vista release :)

[jigar657]

maybe u got hold of the feisty beta ..

[tgm4883]

I don't think that you can crash a site like ubuntu.com by uploading a few images.
even my server would hold this.

and to many views at this nighttime?

that would be the greater success then the vista release :)

What?

[teutatis]

nevermind ubuntu.com is back online

[tubunu]

You peeps are crazy! :lolflag: I'm going to bed and hopefully when I wake up, Feisty will be there ALL FOR MEEE!!! MUAHAHAHAAHAHAH! ;)

[wizardofyendor]

ubuntu.com still down for me...

[markl187ld]

maybe u got hold of the feisty beta ..
The mirror is also hosting the beta file, however, the one I am downloading is not tagged as so and the file date is different. I'm assuming its a RC which has been cleared to go final.

95% done.

[tgm4883]

It's been up for me, but really slow

so is http://www.canonical.com/

[black_ice]

itis beta version for sure

1:15 remaining :guitar: :guitar: :guitar: :guitar: :guitar: :guitar: :guitar:

[alfonsojc]

hey! i´m from spain! I´m waiting too!!!! :popcorn:

[quique1hn]

it`s down here tooo, and is 16:55

[StarscreamD]

Ugh. Really slow is right.

[FLCLFan]

Same for me.

EDIT
Wait! Its working form me now :)

[Sockerdrickan]

Yay first post!

I hope PowerPC port will be on time too!

[Aramil]

I just hope Ubuntu Studio will be released the same time!

[marko_4454]

I tested it and it looked pretty good until I tried install beryl (succeeded) and it crapped out on me for some still unknown reason. I am running Edgy as of now....for a couple of hours though :)
I gotta give feisty another try!
I can't wait either.

[black_ice]

IAM FROM EGYPT AND IAM WAITING TOoooooooooOoooooooooooooooooooooOOoooOo

WHAT IS THE ubuntu studio ?

and what the performance of the wireless in feisty ?

[jdhore]

Goodbye Feisty forum */me raises his glass to the forum*
and Ubuntu.com is about as slow as 2 turtles f**king in jello for me
...we'll see what happens in about 10-15 minutes

[Zigzam]

Does anyone have a feature list that 7.04 will have?

[bcasanov]

This excitement is too much! I saw that the Ubuntu site is down. Maybe Canonical is updating the content and such.

[KreY]

<4 minutes http://ubuntuforums.org/images/smilies/new_popcornsmiley.gif

[teutatis]

Why going to ubuntu.com directly? why not waiting in this 2 directories for the images?

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/feisty/

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/7.04/


Or am I wrong on this?

[xur17]

This excitement is too much! I saw that the Ubuntu site is down. Maybe Canonical is updating the content and such.

The site is not down for me. It just takes a long... time to load.

[KreY]

woohoo i am the last...

[Fireblend]

Huh? Why is everyone saying bye to the forum? O_o Oh and I'm downloading Feisty right now. Weird time to be upgrading, no? >_>

[galv]

:)

[Visceral Monkey]

lies! I am!

[KreY]

):

[FLCLFan]

1 Hr GMT Left!!!

[galv]

It is time! where is it???

[spankymasterc]

huh? its realeased wtf its 4pm here ???

[Rusna]

Fridge says 58 minutes..

[tgm4883]

Huh? Why is everyone saying bye to the forum? O_o Oh and I'm downloading Feisty right now. Weird time to be upgrading, no? >_>

Everyone is saying goodbye to the forum because the forums will be closed (the feisty development forum that is)

[Sockerdrickan]

This is going to be sweet! :)

[ammark]

So what time exactly are we expected to find the iso's? Is it 19th April 00:00 hours local time for each time zone or something? By that logic shouldnt we be getting our hands on iso's from Australian East Asian mirrors already? or would it be at 00:00 hours UTC? In that case, not much time left is there? I cant wait for it to be released soon enough!!!

[arron]

I cant wait to upgrade! Ubuntu rocks.... And this post keeps getting longer and longer, I didnt think I would get to the end of it :-)

If someone gets a torrent, please post it up on here, i bet all the sites will be overloaded for a while, and a popular torrent = fast!

[Swab]

It's not midnight GMT for another hour...

[Aramil]

UBuntu studio is a version of 7.04 that is focused on video editing,music production and graphics.Check out at www.ubuntustudio.org

[tgm4883]

huh? its realeased wtf its 4pm here ???

It's called not everything revolves around america

[addetwo]

i using beryl, do i have to reinstall everything after instaling feisty? what is happeniing when iam instaling feisty? is there gonna be a big difference?

[KreY]

→→→→ http://tinyurl.com/dhbtx!!!!!!!! HERE IT IS FINALLY ((:

[FLCLFan]

Go to : http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/ to see the time in GMT for people who ummm.... Yeah...

[galv]

It's not midnight GMT for another hour...
I was thinking it was London/Lisbon time ...

[migla]

It's not midnight GMT for another hour...

Really? I'm pretty sure I'm on CET, which is GMT+1 and it's 1:05 here...

Edit: Ok, that greenwitchmeantime site tells me I'm on GMT+2... GMT doesn't do summer (daylight savings) time, which explains it.

[Sockerdrickan]

→→→→ http://tinyurl.com/dhbtx!!!!!!!! HERE IT IS FINALLY ((:
Hahahaha

[tgm4883]

→→→→ http://tinyurl.com/dhbtx!!!!!!!! HERE IT IS FINALLY ((:

Your evil :evil:

[Mr. Picklesworth]

Hm, does anyone know where this section will be accessible from after the release? The forums were rearranged, so this is a bit different now.
Will it all be kept in that archive?

[markl187ld]

Well I burned it, checked and best I can see it's the final... :) Anyone with the beta able to tell me where it says "Beta" on the disk or how else i could tell if it is the beta?

Edit: found it:


Origin: Ubuntu
Label: Ubuntu
Suite: feisty
Version: 7.04
Codename: feisty
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:19:19 UTC
Architectures: i386
Components: main restricted
Description: Ubuntu Feisty 7.04

Here's the link http://ubuntu.virginmedia.com/releases/.pool/ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso

[bcasanov]

The site is not down for me. It just takes a long... time to load.

Yep, your're right... :) My connection timed out on me the first time so I thought the site was down, but now that I tried it again, I found that it indeed loads, but VERY slowly.

[KreY]

NO It is 0:06 no GMT now for syure...

[FuriousLettuce]

I think it's more likely that their servers simply can't handle the amount of requests due to the volume of traffic - the only way you'd expect the servers to be offline is if they were having a major hardware overhaul, which they didn't announce.

[Azathoth_]

I was thinking it was London/Lisbon time ...

And Madrid :D

[Swab]

Really? I'm pretty sure I'm on CET, which is GMT+1 and it's 1:05 here...

UK is on BST right now which is 1 hour ahead of GMT, so you are 2 hours ahead of GMT..

[cymen]

Here in Britain it's midnight, but we're on British Summer Time right now, which is GMT +1. So there. :P

[tgm4883]

Really? I'm pretty sure I'm on CET, which is GMT+1 and it's 1:05 here...

Any daylight saving time or summer time there?

[Aramil]

no i dont think there will be.Depends on the installation,if you upgrade you dont have to do it again,if you make clean install it is obvious...

[koshari]

yes the links dated 17th are betas,

http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu-releases/

i wonder how far behind the mirrors will be,

*chews fingernails in anticipation*

i must admit its a hell of a lot more comfortable waiting for a ubuntu relase to come out sitting in my home refreshing the mirror , having a nige cuppa and some peached eggs as opposed to being a windows fanboy sleeping outside a walmart/harver normans/ect ect for the store to open so i can be first to get vista.

[rictus007]

I think the release is a beta version

[peebly]

:lolflag: sitting here waiting for midnight, and it turns out its the other midnight.

FFS