Jaunty Alpha 6 released... over!

[Savvas Radevic]

Nicosia, come in, over.
JAUNTY - Juliet, Alpha, Uniform, November, Tango, Yankee!
(If you're not aware, it's the NATO phonetic alphabet used for
military spelling purposes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet#Letters )

Welcome to yet another new test release announcement by the Ubuntu
hard-rock/pop/hiphop/trance development team! But keep your pants on,
it's still alpha. :)

Ubuntu 9.04 is not far away considering the release schedule:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JauntyReleaseSchedule
And according to the release schedule again, the beta release is on
March 26th (2009, as in this year *hint hint*)

Everyone start up your favourite virtual machines and give it a go,
try virtualbox for example:
http://www.virtualbox.org
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.1.4/UserManual.pdf

Download it, install it, open up a terminal window and run (I think):
sudo adduser $USER vboxusers

(Enter your password when prompted and press Enter)
Now log out and log back in, you should see it in Applications ⇒
System Tools ⇒ VirtualBox

Nicosia, over and out!

Cheers,
Savvas Radevic
aka medigeek

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com>
Date: 2009/3/12
Subject: Jaunty Alpha 6 released
To: ubuntu-devel-announce at lists.ubuntu.com


Hello Ubuntu developers,

Welcome to Jaunty Jackalope Alpha-6, which will in time become Ubuntu 9.04.

Pre-releases of Jaunty are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable
system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even
frequent breakage.  They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and
those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.

Alpha 6 is the sixth in a series of milestone CD images that will be
released throughout the Jaunty development cycle.  The Alpha images are
known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while
representing a very recent snapshot of Jaunty. You can download it here:

 http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/jaunty/alpha-6/ (Ubuntu Desktop,
Server, Netbook Remix, and MID)
 http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/jaunty/alpha-6/ (Ubuntu
Education Edition)
 http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/jaunty/alpha-6/ (Kubuntu)
 http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/jaunty/alpha-6/ (Xubuntu)
 http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/jaunty/alpha-6/ (UbuntuStudio)
 http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/releases/jaunty/alpha-6/ (Mythbuntu)

See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors for a list of mirrors.

Alpha 6 includes a number of software updates that are ready for large-scale
testing.  Please refer to http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/jaunty/alpha6 for
information on changes in Ubuntu.

This is an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs.  For a list
of known bugs (that you don't need to report if you encounter), please see:

 http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/jaunty/alpha6

If you're interested in following the changes as we further develop
Jaunty, have a look at the jaunty-changes mailing list:

 http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/jaunty-changes

We also suggest that you subscribe to the ubuntu-devel-announce list
if you're interested in following Ubuntu development. This is a
low-traffic list (a few posts a week) carrying announcements of
approved specifications, policy changes, alpha releases, and other
interesting events.

 http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

Bug reports should go to the Ubuntu bug tracker:

 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu

Enjoy,
--
Steve Langasek
On behalf of the Ubuntu release team

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