Colony CD 4

[david]

On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 10:42 +0100, Colin Watson 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.)
> 

Yupp, 
Installed it on my AMD64 box at work today and apart from some (really
annoying) changes in the way Nautilus is operated/used it all works just
great (afaict).

nux