Colony CD 4
Øivind Hoel
oivind.hoel at gmail.com
Mon Sep 5 07:03:16 CDT 2005
I love seeing #4172 as a significant change. It makes me feel special ;)
Will drag this monster down later today and have a stab at it. Good
work, Thanks!
On 9/5/05, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hello world,
>
> Colony CD 4 is ready. This is the fourth in a series of milestone CD
> images that will be released throughout the Breezy development cycle, as
> images that are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD-build or
> installer bugs, while representing very current snapshots of Breezy. You
> can download it here:
>
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/breezy/colony-4/
>
> See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Archive for access instructions.
>
> This will be the last Colony CD release before the Breezy preview, so
> any testing you can provide is appreciated. If you test it, be sure to
> send us a report to ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com.
>
> Significant installer changes since Colony 3 include:
>
> * Many fixes to the live CD, including usplash integration.
>
> * GRUB tries harder to boot even when the BIOS fails to pass a boot
> drive (#13511).
>
> * APT configuration when the network is unavailable should now be much
> faster (#8265).
>
> * Drop inappropriate language fallbacks for Norwegian installs
> (#4172).
>
> * Many Colony 3 tests reported hangs while installing language support
> packages; this was a combination of two bugs (not all the necessary
> packages were being copied from CD, and sometimes apt's cron job was
> coming round and deleting packages from the apt cache in the middle
> of the install), both of which are now fixed.
>
> (Apologies for anything important I've missed while on holiday.)
>
> If you're interested in following changes as we further develop Breezy,
> have a look at the breezy-changes list:
>
> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/breezy-changes
>
> Bug reports should go here:
>
> https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/
>
> Enjoy,
>
> --
> Colin Watson [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
>
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