Ubuntu 'Feisty Fawn' released, hit by traffic
Ubuntu 'Feisty Fawn' released, hit by traffic By Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com Published on ZDNet News: April 19, 2007, 11:41 AM PT Canonical on Thursday released version 7.04 of Ubuntu Linux, nicknamed Feisty Fawn, but the company's Web site was unable to keep up with the demand for the software. The up-and-coming Ubuntu has yet to attain the commercially blessed status of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise, which have been in the marketplace years longer and are certified to work with many software and hardware products. But Canonical's software has built a significant fan base with its twice-yearly updates, user-friendly values and cutesy naming scheme. Feisty Fawn held up better than the protagonist in the animation Bambi Meets Godzilla: Canonical put up a bare-bones home page with just a single logo and a list of "mirror" sites from which the software can be downloaded. Still, the site was unavailable for more than half of the day, according to site availability monitoring company Pingdom. "We have been absolutely swamped with hits to the Web site and the mirrors," Canonical Chief Executive Mark Shuttleworth said in a conference call. "Fortunately there are 160 mirrors out there, all rapidly updating to include Feisty Fawn. We hope the logjam won't last much longer." Feisty Fawn features virtualization support and a new crash-reporting tool to aid debugging, but not the glitzy 3D interface Shuttleworth initially wanted. Ubuntu got an unsolicited endorsement from Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell, a computer maker that's been wrestling with how to meet demand for desktop Linux. On Wednesday, the company announced on its Direct2Dell blog that Michael Dell got a new notebook with Feisty Fawn installed. Shuttleworth said he didn't talk to Dell's CEO about the move and wouldn't comment on whether he was in discussions with the computer maker for some sort of partnership. But Dell's move "does suggest that the company is forward-looking and perhaps considering Ubuntu," Shuttleworth said. Ubuntu is chiefly popular on PCs today, but Canonical is following the well-worn path to the server as it builds its Linux business. On servers, the open-source operating system is a stronger rival to Microsoft Windows and functionally very similar to versions of Unix that many administrators are familiar with. Red Hat and Novell's Linux business comes chiefly from selling support subscriptions to server customers. Also on Thursday, Canonical announced a partnership with Sun Microsystems to bolster its server push. The company has integrated Sun's Java software with Feisty Fawn, making it available through the "multiverse" collection of preconfigured, downloadable software packages. Sun has begun making its core Java Standard Edition software open source and will finish during the first half of 2007, said Jeet Kaul, Sun's vice president of developer products and programs. Other components already are open-source software, including the Glassfish project for Java Enterprise Edition, a collection of extensions for running Java on servers, and NetBeans, a Java programming environment. Java SE, Glassfish and NetBeans all are available for Feisty Fawn, Shuttleworth said. "This is the first time the Java platform technology has been fully integrated into a Linux distribution to this extent," said Ian Murdock, Sun's newly appointed chief operating systems officer and founder of the Debian version of Linux on which Ubuntu is based. Though NetBeans is his own "preferred Java development environment," Shuttleworth said that its main rival, Eclipse, already is integrated into Ubuntu. The next version of Ubuntu, Gutsy Gibbon, is due in October. Neither it nor Feisty Fawn features the long-term support of version 6.06, called Dapper Drake. A version with long-term support, which lasts five years, likely won't arrive until the release of Gutsy Gibbon's successor, Shuttleworth said. --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.
Out of curiosity, is Linux widely used by Kenyans than other FOSS OSes like the *BSD line? Just curious. cheers - wash +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ Odhiambo Washington . WANANCHI ONLINE LTD (Nairobi, KE) | wash () WANANCHI ! com . 1ere Etage, Loita Hse, Loita St., | GSM: (+254) 722 743 223 . # 10286, 00100 NAIROBI | GSM: (+254) 733 744 121 . (+254) 020 313 985 - 9 | +---------------------------------+------------------------------------------+ "Oh My God! They killed init! You Bastards!" --from a /. post
Don't have any data though I can say nearly all surfers at my cafe use Linux but they have no clue they were using the Linux ("For Human Beings") installed. Firefox did a good thing to develop identical versions for Ubuntu Desktop and Windows. Education told us here it's policy all public schools PCs must be dual boot, thus one would expect that they all should/shall have one *nix flavour or another which will mean big numbers. I chose Ubuntu because of its user-friendliness. Perhaps others chip in? Odhiambo WASHINGTON <wash@wananchi.com> wrote: Out of curiosity, is Linux widely used by Kenyans than other FOSS OSes like the *BSD line? Just curious. cheers - wash +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ Odhiambo Washington . WANANCHI ONLINE LTD (Nairobi, KE) | wash () WANANCHI ! com . 1ere Etage, Loita Hse, Loita St., | GSM: (+254) 722 743 223 . # 10286, 00100 NAIROBI | GSM: (+254) 733 744 121 . (+254) 020 313 985 - 9 | +---------------------------------+------------------------------------------+ "Oh My God! They killed init! You Bastards!" --from a /. post _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@kictanet.or.ke http://kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Please unsubscribe or change your options at http://kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/alex.gakuru%40yahoo.com --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.
* On 20/04/07 07:29 -0700, Alex Gakuru wrote: | Don't have any data though I can say nearly all surfers at my cafe | use Linux but they have no clue they were using the Linux ("For Human | Beings") installed. Firefox did a good thing to develop identical | versions for Ubuntu Desktop and Windows. ACK. | Education told us here it's policy all public schools PCs must | be dual boot, thus one would expect that they all should/shall have | one *nix flavour or another which will mean big numbers. I did not understand the need for dual-boot though. What is it supposed to achieve for a non-techie? | I chose Ubuntu because of its user-friendliness. Perhaps others chip in? Perhaps we need a debate on this. I use FreeBSD because I believe I am 99% competent in running it, either as a server or desktop PC. I know how to make my way around almost over _any_ problem with it. I do know for a fact that only a very small percentage of those who say "I know Linux" can be able to fix it if it gets broken. Mostly, the "I know" is based on the GUI being available during install and normal use. When a problem comes up, it is the same thing as Windows - when the GUI is not there, they are at a loss! My thinking is that people should use an OS based on their competence with it, user-friendliness notwithstanding. The OS is just the road. The tools are the applications that you can run on it. However one should be able to choose a road they are comfortable with. To me user-friendly means how fast I can recover from a problem either with the OS or the installed applications, GUI or no GUI. Perhaps this applies only to me? cheers - wash +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ Odhiambo Washington . WANANCHI ONLINE LTD (Nairobi, KE) | wash () WANANCHI ! com . 1ere Etage, Loita Hse, Loita St., | GSM: (+254) 722 743 223 . # 10286, 00100 NAIROBI | GSM: (+254) 733 744 121 . (+254) 020 313 985 - 9 | +---------------------------------+------------------------------------------+ "Oh My God! They killed init! You Bastards!" --from a /. post
On 4/20/07, Odhiambo WASHINGTON <wash@wananchi.com> wrote:
* On 20/04/07 07:29 -0700, Alex Gakuru wrote: | Don't have any data though I can say nearly all surfers at my cafe | use Linux but they have no clue they were using the Linux ("For Human | Beings") installed. Firefox did a good thing to develop identical | versions for Ubuntu Desktop and Windows.
"Linux for Human beings" is great, I was using it Last week at IST for my presentation on installing freebsd,but they did not know the difference,till I was done and had to shut down. If you have to conquer,give guys what they already have but in a different way/version/OS, they are used to GUI so why not Linux but GUI? The link below may not be the exact picture,bearing in mind that there non-registered users...but its gives a picture,of what the worl thinks of Kenya and Linux. http://counter.li.org/reports/place.php?place=KE ACK.
| Education told us here it's policy all public schools PCs must | be dual boot, thus one would expect that they all should/shall have | one *nix flavour or another which will mean big numbers.
I did not understand the need for dual-boot though. What is it supposed to achieve for a non-techie?
I would like to take the dual boot as a good sign,the linux will have to be taught and make use of that partition. Non-techie,will only become a techie,once they realise what they've got! | I chose Ubuntu because of its user-friendliness. Perhaps others chip in?
Perhaps we need a debate on this. I use FreeBSD because I believe I am 99% competent in running it, either as a server or desktop PC. I know how to make my way around almost over _any_ problem with it. I do know for a fact that only a very small percentage of those who say "I know Linux" can be able to fix it if it gets broken.
Agreed!! Mostly, the
"I know" is based on the GUI being available during install and normal use. When a problem comes up, it is the same thing as Windows - when the GUI is not there, they are at a loss! My thinking is that people should use an OS based on their competence with it, user-friendliness notwithstanding.
The OS is just the road. The tools are the applications that you can run on it. However one should be able to choose a road they are comfortable with.
Does this apply on the availability and cost? People tend to turn to this road (linux/OSS) because of this reason not really comfortability...and if you dont want to fall under the category of "pirators" and be free with your softwares,not looking over your shoulder,everytime a shadow passes behind! I think that one of the major things that we do lack is,We don't have/or not ready to finance technical skills for the development, support and training for Linux! that is why guys are hesitant. companies would rather pay,for what they think they know, than venture on what they just hear! and the norm is who(company) is using it,of my calibre(company)? To me user-friendly means how fast I can recover from a problem either
with the OS or the installed applications, GUI or no GUI. Perhaps this applies only to me?
cheers - wash
+----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ Odhiambo Washington . WANANCHI ONLINE LTD (Nairobi, KE) | wash () WANANCHI ! com . 1ere Etage, Loita Hse, Loita St., | GSM: (+254) 722 743 223 . # 10286, 00100 NAIROBI | GSM: (+254) 733 744 121 . (+254) 020 313 985 - 9 |
+---------------------------------+------------------------------------------+ "Oh My God! They killed init! You Bastards!" --from a /. post
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