Ubuntu 11.4 going to release today keep your finger cross

http://www.ubuntu.com/

hope give us a good stable desktop

 

It hasn't been released yet.

First review in a UK computer publication has been awesome!

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/software/366910/ubuntu-linux-11-04

 

I've been zsync-ing daily for the last month, both 32 and 64 bit, so I should have the final release already....

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/


But I have found a site that's showing the final...

http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/CDs-Ubuntu/11.04/

The names are different for the isos but the md5s are the same.

Later...

 

Just downloading it now, not sure at what time it went live on the servers?

 

It's not officially released yet. I should add that they could make some last minute change to the isos so take my post with a grain of salt.

Later...

 

It has now

Incredibly slow for me on Live CD which is unusual. I am going to install, see what happens. Unity is going to take some getting used to, although I am prepared to give it a shot and see what happens.

Has anyone had time to take it for a spin yet, thoughts?

 

Check for available downloads at your nearest Ubuntu Mirror.

-- Tom

 

hows the stability guys speed is very slow here going to download tomorrow

 

I tried updating beta 2, but between the updater randomly crashing, and the slow connection to the Ubuntu server, that was pretty much impossible. Downloading a fresh ISO now.

*It should be noted that if you can, use the torent download instead of downloading directly. You'll not only take a TON of strain off their servers, but you'll help provide it to others downloading too

 

Going to update virtual machine later today, but not netbook until a few weeks/months of patching.

 

Completely disappointed. I ran the alphas fine yet the release doesn't even load. Errors out in early boot with "unable to handle kernel page request at 'xyz location'. The trace mentions "Radeon" a lot so I can only assume it's a hardware incompatibility issue. Shame, wonder if I can get my hands on the alpha ISO so I can revert to it.

 

Going to give it a try on the desktop here either tonight or tomorrow. Not sure yet whether Unity will be a good thing or not, although I do like the new look, and I also like change. So we'll see...

 

Glad that update I tried didn't work. Installed a fresh ISO, grub is completely gone, used my recovery disk, booted into 11.04, and it freezes at the plymouth screen

 

It's still very buggy. I couldn't get the Update Manager to run (still), or Additional Drivers. But I'm trying to get it in ship-shape, it will take a lot of time that's for sure. I need to compile a few drivers, and get my wireless working properly.

Good luck downloading anything from their servers for the next few days

 

Didn't have any problem here. Got it off their servers in 9 minutes.....

 

First download was very slow: 20 kb/s. Canceled that one.
Second download from better mirror was very fast: 1.1 mb/s. Didn't took long.

 

Very happy with the new Software Center, am finally able to install 10+ items at the same time, without it going buggy on me.

 

I've experienced a desktop freeze. I don't know if its a bug but the mouse and the desktop freezes after I login on my hard disk setup. It works ok in my USB live environment.

I think there's a bug in Natty that locks up the desktop. I have never seen this in my Linux Mint install.

 

I encountered a strange problem. After install and restarting, I cannot see the grub menu... my monitor showed a page where there is refresh rates and some others informations about the monitor... and after a time counting it shutdown like when you choose "to sleep after x time of inactivity". I need uncomment the line "GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480" to it show properly. EVen with the NVIDIA proprietary graphics this behaviour occur.

 

Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) User Guide.

Things To Tweak / Fix After Installing Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal.

-- Tom

 

Pretty nice here so far. Been using it since last night, and no significant glitches or issues for me. The update/repo servers are bogged down, but that's normal at release time. Banshee crashed on me about 4 times while scanning my mp3 library, but other than that, nothing bad has happened. I like the new interface a lot, although it does take a little time to figure things out at first. Anyway, so far so good. I have no complaints.

Edit: I spoke too soon. I made the mistake of unintalling the fglrx driver for my ATI graphics because I was having some minor issues with it, and for some very strange reason, that seems to have broken my Banshee mp3 playback, which was working fine. So I tried installing the driver again, but no go. Banshee is broken. Oh well. This is the kind of stuff I don't have much patience for. I don't really feel like trying to troubleshoot this issue now. Looking at the Ubuntu forums it appears there are a lot of other issues as well. Might be a good idea to hold off for a while, or just wait for the next release in November, which might be more polished.

 

I'm eagerly waiting for a review on Dedoimedo.com, hope it comes up soon!

 

Are they gonna push Unity out to LTS users?

 

I would assume so, at least in future. GNOME 2 fallback will be removed in Oneiric, which is the release before the next LTS version. But if you're currently using Lucid, you'll be safe for now.

On the bright side, there'll be Linux Mint, and probably a Gubuntu spin as well.

 

Linux Mint will do GNOME 3 right. Their quality is excellent - that is what happens when developers pay attention to the little details and the end user experience.

Something Canonical forgot when it rushed a very buggy product out to the market.