Meet the Hoary Hedgehog

[Philippe Landau]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Announcing the beginning of Ubuntu's Next Release: "Hoary Hedgehog"
> 
> In the past few weeks, users who have been following the mailing lists have
> heard developers saying "no" to the introduction of new features with
> comments like, "we'll put that on the list for Hoary." The Ubuntu
> development team is pleased to announce that, while still in an immature
> stage, "Hoary" has arrived.
> 
> With Ubuntu 4.10 'Warty Warthog' safely and successfully out the door, the
> Ubuntu developers have begun doing work on our next release, codenamed the
> 'Hoary Hedgehog.' With our six-month release schedule, it is due to be
> released in April of 2005.
> 
> For those of you who have missed the daily churn of new packages, Hoary is
> for you.  It will include daily updates from Debian's development branch
> (sid), with Ubuntu additions and customizations where appropriate.  For the
> next six months, it is within Hoary that Ubuntu development will be taking
> place and where the latest version of Ubuntu packages will always be
> available.
> 
> PLEASE NOTE: While up-to-date, this development snapshot is not (and not
> meant to be) a stable distribution. Bugs and breakage, while they will be
> kept under control wherever possible, *are* a reality in such a system.
> Pre-release versions of Hoary are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a
> stable system or anyone without who is not comfortable running into
> occasional breakage. It *is* recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who
> want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.
> 
> To install Hoary, you may edit your /etc/apt/sources.list configuration file
> to replace all instances of 'warty' with 'hoary.' You can then go about
> updating and upgrading to Hoary with apt, aptitude or synaptic as you would
> normally.
> 
> Users who decide to upgrade to Hoary may be interested in signing up on the
> Ubuntu development mailing list to track major problems and discussion in
> the development process if they have not done so already. They may also be
> interested submitting any bugs they find in the Ubuntu Bugzilla:
> 
>  - Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/
> 
> Finally, there is also now a mailing list that will include details *all* of
> the changes made in hoary (just like 'warty-changes' did for Warty). You can
> subscribe to it here:
> 
>   http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/hoary-changes
> 
> Enjoy the ride!
amazing, already 350 updates in a week, thank you :-)
great wording balancing caution and encouragement.
i already started to feel like a prisoner in the
known limitations and bugs of warty software.

kind regards     philippe