[ubuntu-uk] Fiesty Fawn Formally Freed for Future fetching !

[Dean Sas]

Paul Tansom wrote:
> ** baz <baza41 at gmail.com> [2007-04-20 02:06]:
>> On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 01:31 +0100, Leon Barker wrote:
>>> I installed Feisty 4 days ago and have not received any updates
>>> therefore the final version must have been released about 5 days ago.
>>>
>> Agreed, it looks like while there was an, 'official' launch, Fiesty has
>> been complete for around a week or so. I upgraded about five or so days
>> ago and not had any 'main' updates since.

Generally a release candidate gets generated and tested for a few days 
before it's actually decided it's good enough and is promoted as 'feisty 
final'. Ideally the release candidate and the actual release should be 
identical.

> Yes, I'd expect the actual iso files, etc. to be ready a day or so
> before release to give time to get everything in place. My main
> confusion was that I'd read on the Ubuntu forum somewhere that there was
> a last minute bug found and everyone was waiting for it to be fixed (I
> have in mind a kernel bug related to ATA cards or something, 

That's right, it delayed the release candidate by a few days, well that 
and a wireless bug.

> Anyway, I have the iso, so little lost in giving it a go tomorrow. It'll
> be a clean install next to an existing Windows XP install (I have the
> alternate CD). With any luck I'll have a usable Ubuntu system this time,
> although the particular machine hasn't had too much luck with the live
> CD so far - painfully slow even with 512M RAM on a 1.2GHz (real speed)
> Athlon; I have an extra 256M in there now, but lack the right size DIMMs
> to go any higher :(

My 1.3ghz p3, 512mb laptop runs fine when it's actually installed, 
haven't tried the live cd, (I used the alternate) but I can imagine it 
being slow.

Dean