Announcing Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu 5.10

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-10-13

After a long six months of development, the Ubuntu team has announced the release of Ubuntu 5.10, also known as “Breezy Badger”. Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for your desktop or server, with a fast and easy install, regular releases, a tight selection of excellent packages installed by default, every other package you can imagine available from the network, a commitment to security updates for 18 months after each release and professional technical support from many companies around the world.

Coinciding with this release, Jonathan Riddell also announced Kubuntu 5.10:

The second release of Kubuntu, codenamed Breezy Badger, is now available for download. This release comes with the very latest KDE 3.4.3 and includes the new Guidance configuration tools. If you missed our testing releases for Breezy you will be pleased to see the other new additions in Kubuntu Breezy including Adept package manager, System Settings and KDE Bluetooth.

And last, but certainly not least, the Edubuntu team’s first release is also available. Developed in partnership with the K12-LTSP community, this is a great base distro for people working with FLOSS in schools:

Features include a built-in Linux Terminal Server, educational applications such as GCompris and the KDE Edutainment Suite, Tux4kids, and other quality software that you will also find in Ubuntu.

All three are available for the i386, PowerPC, and x86_64 hardware architectures. As always, ordering a complimentary copy of the official Ubuntu 5.10 CD — or a handful to give to friends, your school or LUG — is a snack with shipit! The Documentation team has whipped up a quick tour that you can peruse while waiting for your download. Also, don’t forget to read the release notes. Enjoy!

OSDL Desktop Linux Survey

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-10-12

The sabdfl calls! Ubuntu users far and wide, please participate in the OSDL Linux Desktop Survey:

This survey will help us understand what features are most important for the next release. We are just starting to set the feature list for Dapper (6.04) and would appreciate your knowledge and ideas.

In addition, if you have specific feature requests, now’s a good time to mail them to me. I’ll be preparing for the Ubuntu Below Zero (UBZ) conference over the next ten days, and ideas that come in before then could make it onto the agenda for the dev team.

Mass Ubuntu deployment in Macedonia

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-10-10

Арангел Ангов has written up a preliminary report of 5,000 new Ubuntu desktops in the Macedonian school system.

After a few meetings and some research Ubuntu just came up as first on the list. The main factor that influenced our choice was the interoperability of Ubuntu with other operating systems.

LinuxWorld Award for best open source distribution

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-10-07

On October 5th at the LinuxWorld Award ceremomy in London, Ubuntu received the user-nominated award for best open source distribution. Some of the other winners during the evening included Alan Cox for a lifetime achievement award for his work with the Linux Kernel, SpreadFirefox for best marketing campaign, Joomla for best open source project, and Rackspace for best open source ISP.

Release Party Time!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-10-06

It’s that time again! After an arduous six months the Breezy release process is finally nearing completion. Traditionally, Ubunteros from around the world gather around local pubs and establishments to celebrate the release of our favorite distribution, where they can eat, drink, be merry, and share tall tales of the development cycle.

You can find parties and link up information at the release party page. Don’t forget to submit your release party photos to the gallery.