The dreams that inspired this release are now in running code, and available for your download.
We would like to acknowledge the debt of gratitude owed by everyone in the Unix community to Dennis Ritchie, who passed away this weekend.
None of this code could have happened without building on the dreams and excellent work of such giants.
For more information on the release, please see the release notes.
One week away from the Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 release, the archive is now in hard freeze for preparation of that Beta.
During the freeze, all uploads to main must be approved by a member of the release team, so if you have fixes which are important to get in, please get in touch as soon as possible (and preferably, get your packages uploaded in parallel!). Uploads to universe require a manual push through the queue, but are not subject to release management approval.
11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) Alpha 3 is now available for those developers and testers interested in helping find and fix bugs before we beta.
More details can be found at:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/TechnicalOverview/Alpha3
Ubuntu 11.04 is now available.
For more information on the release, please see the announcement.
Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 2 is now available. We’ve been busy fixing the bugs found from Beta 1, and getting it polished up. Please download and give it a whirl, and if you find a problem, by all means file a bug.
For more information on the release (including information on those bugs we do know about), please see the announcement.
Ubuntu 11.04 Beta is now available. It has lots of cool new packages interacting together for the first time, so we would appreciate your help in finding those bugs we don’t know about yet. Please download and give it a whirl, and if you find a problem, by all means file a bug.
For more information on the release (including information on those bugs we do know about), please see the announcement.
We’re due to release the second milestone of Natty on Thursday, and as usual have placed main in a “soft freeze”. Please be considerate with your uploads, try to improve the uninstallability situation, and work on targeted bugs. Thanks!
Next Thursday we are aiming for releasing the second Alpha milestone of Ubuntu Natty. Please help us to resolve the numerous targetted bugs.
Update: Originally announced for this week, I mixed up the schedule. Sorry about that!
Some time ago a group of hyper-intelligent pan dimensional beings decided to finally answer the great question of Life, The Universe and Everything. To this end, a small band of these Debians built an incredibly powerful distribution, Ubuntu. After this great computer programme had run (a very quick 3 million minutes…or 6 years) the answer was announced. The Ultimate answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is…42, and in its’ purest form 101010. Which suggests that what you really need to know is ‘What was the Question?’. The great distribution kindly pointed out that what the problem really was that no-one knew the question. Accordingly, the distribution designed a set of successors, marked by a circle of friends…to ultimately bring Unity to all things living…Ubuntu 10.10, to find the question to the ultimate answer.
And with that, the Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 10.10. Codenamed “Maverick Meerkat”, 10.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.
For more, please see the official release announcement.
Like I said before, releases are big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big they are. I mean, you may think it’s a long haul to release a single Linux package or application, but that’s just peanuts to a Linux distribution release. Because of this, we must work our way up to it, incrementally…bit by bit…milestone by milestone…it takes a lot of Deep Thought. So with that, we formally announce Ubuntu 10.10 Release Candidate. Codenamed “Maverick Meerkat”, 10.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.
We consider this release candidate to be complete, stable, and suitable for testing by any user.
For more information on the release, please see the announcement