Ubuntu Herd 5 released

[Tollef Fog Heen]

Welcome to Feisty Fawn Herd 5, which will in time become Ubuntu 7.04.

Pre-releases of Feisty 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.  Installing a milestone and then upgrading through
the release cycle should leave you with a close approximation of the
final release.

Herd 5 is the fifth in a series of milestone CD images that will be
released throughout the Feisty development cycle. The Herd images are
known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs,
while representing current snapshots of Feisty. You can download it
here, for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu:

Ubuntu:

  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/feisty/herd-5/
  http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-cdimages/feisty/herd-5/
  http://ubuntu-cdimage.datahop.it/releases/feisty/herd-5/
  http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/feisty/herd-5/

Kubuntu:

  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/feisty/herd-5/
  http://ubuntu-cdimage.datahop.it/kubuntu/releases/feisty/herd-5/
  http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/feisty/herd-5/

Edubuntu:

  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/feisty/herd-5/

Xubuntu:

  http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-cdimage-xubuntu/releases/feisty/herd-5/
  http://ubuntu-cdimage.datahop.it/xubuntu/releases/feisty/herd-5/
  http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/feisty/herd-5/

See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Archive for access instructions.

The primary focus during the time from Herd 4 has been bug fixing.
Please refer to http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/herd5 for information on
changes in Ubuntu, and
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/FeistyFawn/Herd5/Kubuntu for changes in
Kubuntu.

This is the last set of images before beta, but you can still expect
some bugs. Among these are the following (so you do not need to bother
reporting these if you encounter them):

  * If you have any NTFS filesystems on your disk, the partitioner
    will get very confused to the point where you may have to reboot.
    A fix is in progress, but to work around this in the meantime, 'mv
    /usr/bin/ntfsresize /usr/bin/ntfsresize.real' before the
    partitioner starts (in the alternate install CD, the hostname
    prompt is a good time to do this).

If you are interested in following changes as we further develop
Feisty, have a look at the feisty-changes list:

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

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

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

The Testing area of the wiki suggests various tests that can be
performed on Herd CD releases to try to catch bugs early in the
release process that they can be fixed:

  http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing

Bug reports should go to the Ubuntu bugtracker, Malone:

  https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs

Enjoy,
-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are