Ubuntu Release Blog

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

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 package or application, but that’s just peanuts to a distribution release. Because of this, we must work our way up to it, incrementally…bit by bit…milestone by milestone. So with that, we formally announce Ubuntu 10.10 Beta in all it’s glory. Please download and give it a whirl, and if you find a problem, by all means file a bug…but Don’t Panic.

For more information on the release, please see the announcement.

The Maverick Meerkat is shaping up. Welcome to the third milestone (“Alpha-3″). Grab them while they are hot, give them a try, and let us know how it works for you!

See the announcement for details.

In two days we are looking forward to releasing the third milestone of Maverick. The usual soft freeze is now in effect for main, so please be considerate with uploads, avoid any library transition and uninstallability, and help us to resolve the numerous targetted bugs.

The Maverick Meerkat is shaping up. Please say hello to the second milestone (“Alpha-2″) and give it a try!

See the announcement for details.

The Meerkat is loose – the first testing milestone of Maverick Meerkat is released.  Please see the announcement for details and download links.

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long-Term Support). This release incorporates the Desktop Edition and the Server Edition. The Server Edition can be used on physical servers, on Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), and on Amazon’s EC2 public cloud. Codenamed “Lucid Lynx”, 10.04 LTS continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

The second beta of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) has just been released, for even more greek-letter-y goodness than the first. See http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/lucid/beta2 for a list of mirrors, so you can help participate in testing for the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS final release.