Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 (Oneiric Ocelot) Released.

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-09-22

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2.

Codenamed “Oneiric Ocelot”, 11.10 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 fixing bugs and introducing a couple of new features as we polish up for the release.

Ubuntu Changes since Beta 1

Some of the new features now available are:

A new set of community supported ARM architecture images will be available between now and the release. The armel+ac100 for the Toshiba ac100 netbook is available for download now, and armel+mx5 targeted at the Freescale i.MX53 Quick Start development board will be available in one of the upcoming dailies.

GNOME got updated to current unstable version (3.1.92) on its way to GNOME 3.2

OneConf has now been integrated into the Ubuntu Software Center to help keep your installed applications in sync between computers.

And we continue to improve the underlying infrastructure:

Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 improves support for installing 32-bit library and application packages on 64-bit systems

Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 has a new kernel based on v3.0.4.

Ubuntu Server

Beta 2 includes Orchestra which is a collection of the best free software services for provisioning, deploying, hosting, managing, and orchestrating enterprise data center infrastructure services, by, with, and for the Ubuntu Server.

Juju (formerly codenamed Ensemble) is now available as a part of Ubuntu Server to handle service deployment and orchestration for both cloud and bare metal. Juju has many Charms available, including OpenStack deployment.

Xen hypervisor has been re-introduced to Ubuntu Server.

Kubuntu

Kubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 has the latest KDE software including KDE 4.7.1 Plasma Workspaces and Applications.

Along with KDE 4.7.1, the new KDE Personal Information Management (KDEPIM) suite 4.7 is included, which includes the new Kmail 2.

The Muon Suite 1.2 which includes Muon Software Center and Muon Package manager is now available.

Please see https://wiki.kubuntu.org/OneiricOcelot/Beta2/Kubuntu for details.

Edubuntu

Edubuntu’s Oneiric Ocelot Beta 2 has updates to gobby-0.5 and gbrainy version 2.

For more details on what has changed in Edubuntu 11.10, please refer to http://www.edubuntu.org.

Mythbuntu

Mythbuntu Oneiric Ocelot Beta 2 has adapted Chromium to replace Firefox by default. It now ships with Ubuntu Software Center.

Please see http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ for further details.

About Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for desktops, laptops, and servers, with a fast and easy installation and regular releases. A tightly-integrated selection of excellent applications is included, and an incredible variety of add-on software is just a few clicks away.

Professional technical support is available from Canonical Limited and hundreds of other companies around the world. For more information about support, visit http://www.ubuntu.com/support

If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at: http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate.

Your comments, bug reports, patches and suggestions really help us to improve this and future releases of Ubuntu. Instructions can be found at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

To Get Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2

To upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 from Ubuntu 11.04, follow these instructions:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OneiricUpgrades

Or, download Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 images from a location near you:

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/download (Ubuntu and Ubuntu Server)

In addition, they can be found at the following links:

The final version of Ubuntu 11.10 is expected to be released on October 13 2011.

More Information

You can find out more about Ubuntu and about this beta release on our website, IRC channel and wiki.

To sign up for future Ubuntu announcements, please subscribe to Ubuntu’s very low volume announcement list at:

http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce

Originally sent to the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list by Kate Stewart on Thu Sep 22 22:50:21 UTC 2011

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6 Responses to “Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 (Oneiric Ocelot) Released.”

  1. Virgie Puckett Says:
    September 26th, 2011 at 13:29:57 GMT+0000

    Can’t wait for the stable release 😀

  2. haskell php ubuntu Says:
    September 29th, 2011 at 13:12:34 GMT+0000

    cant wait for final release such a powerfull search function

  3. Michael Says:
    September 30th, 2011 at 17:36:14 GMT+0000

    I like the new version except for the power management for the screen is not as versatile as before. It had an option to close the lid of the laptop and leave the screen blank. Therefore I could leave my monitor on and play music with the lid shut at night, however I must disconnect the monitor.Any help?hope?!

  4. Paul Says:
    October 5th, 2011 at 05:47:02 GMT+0000

    Can we please get the menu’s back in the top left panel? the left edge bar is pretty, but I miss the menus.

  5. Rendra Pratama C Says:
    October 7th, 2011 at 23:52:06 GMT+0000

    I am very disappointed at all, when it was not wait to Oneiric stable, then I will download the Ubuntu 11:10 Beta 2 which was very unstable on my laptop. though “ubuntu 11:10 alpha 1, 2”, I was quite happy to make.

    This problem occurs on my laptop Asus A42F series (K42F is read by Natty). 2 GB RAM

    1. Network: Mobile Broadband: type CDMA: when disconnected from the server, the application does not start automatically connect as in Natty (although ask for the password again), though already we are setting for auto-connect.

    2. Brightness on the screen always turns itself on most sunny position.

    3. LibreOffice always ask for recovery when to reopen a previously made ​​document that does not want us to save.

    4. Unity feels very heavy, when typing on the unity, the keyboard responds in 3-5 seconds to display the letters that we input.

    5. If you add the application on start-up manager (ex. tomboy), no matter when we log, but ubuntu can not logout, shutdown, or restart, but shut tomboy from the menu of indicators.

    6. Power indicator sometimes disappeared, and we can not turn off the computer except the power switch.

    7. Computer often hangs when opening the application more than 3. (ex. libreoffice with two documents open, mozilla firefox, and nautilus).

    8. many application icons are blank (no drawing) when added to unity launcher application (ex. screenshots, calculator)

    thank for fixing…

  6. Apple Orange Says:
    October 12th, 2011 at 15:12:34 GMT+0000

    cant w8

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