The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the final beta release of Ubuntu 15.04 Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products.
Codenamed "Vivid Vervet", 15.04 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.
This beta release includes images from not only the Ubuntu Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products, but also the Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu Studio and Xubuntu flavours. In addition to the usual suspects, we’re also welcoming a new flavour to the family this cycle with Ubuntu MATE.
The beta images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of 15.04 that should be representative of the features intended to ship with the final release expected on April 23rd, 2015.
There are, however, two bugs in this beta serious enough that it’s worth calling them out in the release announcement. Both bugs affect all flavours, are considered high priority, and will be addressed in upcoming daily builds:
- After installation is complete, clicking the "reboot now" button will eject your installation medium but then fail to reboot. The simple workaround for this is to manually turn off or reset your computer and then boot into the freshly installed system.
- When doing an OEM installation, the OEM user will not be removed at the end of the prepare-to-ship phase. Because of this, it is not recommended that oem-config be used with this beta, except for testing purposes.
Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Core, Cloud Images
Utopic Final Beta includes updated versions of most of our core set of packages, including a current 3.19.2 kernel, the much-anticipated switch to systemd, and much more.
To upgrade to Ubuntu 15.04 Final Beta from Ubuntu 14.10, follow these instructions:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VividUpgrades
The Ubuntu 15.04 Final Beta images can be downloaded at:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/15.04/ (Ubuntu and Ubuntu Server)
Additional images can be found at the following links:
- http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/15.04/beta-2/ (Cloud Images)
- http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/15.04/beta-2/ (Community Supported)
- http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-core/releases/15.04/beta-2/ (Core)
- http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/15.04/ (Netboot)
The full release notes for Ubuntu 15.04 Final Beta can be found at:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VividVervet/ReleaseNotes
Kubuntu
Kubuntu is the KDE based flavour of Ubuntu. It uses the Plasma desktop and includes a wide selection of tools from the KDE project.
The Final Beta images can be downloaded at:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/15.04/beta-2/
More information on Kubuntu Final Beta can be found here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VividVervet/Beta2/Kubuntu
Lubuntu
Lubuntu is a flavor of Ubuntu that targets to be lighter, less resource hungry and more energy-efficient by using lightweight applications and LXDE, The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment, as its default GUI.
The Final Beta images can be downloaded at:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/15.04/beta-2/
More information on Lubuntu Final Beta can be found here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VividVervet/Beta2/Lubuntu
Ubuntu GNOME
Ubuntu GNOME is a flavor of Ubuntu featuring the GNOME desktop environment.
The Final Beta images can be downloaded at:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/15.04/beta-2/
More information on Ubuntu GNOME Final Beta can be found here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VividVervet/Beta2/UbuntuGNOME
UbuntuKylin
UbuntuKylin is a flavor of Ubuntu that is more suitable for Chinese users.
The Final Beta images can be downloaded at:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntukylin/releases/15.04/beta-2/
More information on UbuntuKylin Final Beta can be found here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VividVervet/Beta2/UbuntuKylin
Ubuntu MATE
Ubuntu MATE is a flavor of Ubuntu featuring the MATE desktop environment.
The Final Beta images can be downloaded at:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/releases/15.04/beta-2/
More information on UbuntuMATE Final Beta can be found here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VividVervet/Beta2/UbuntuMATE
Ubuntu Studio
Ubuntu Studio is a flavor of Ubuntu that provides a full range of multimedia content creation applications for each key workflows: audio, graphics, video, photography and publishing.
The Final Beta images can be downloaded at:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/15.04/beta-2/
Xubuntu
Xubuntu is a flavor of Ubuntu that comes with Xfce, which is a stable, light and configurable desktop environment.
The Final Beta images can be downloaded at:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/15.04/beta-2/
Regular daily images for Ubuntu can be found at:
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Originally posted to the ubuntu-announce mailing list on Fri Mar 27 01:01:04 UTC 2015 by Adam Conrad, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team,