Announcing Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-06-01

The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, codenamed “Dapper Drake”. This release includes both installable Desktop CDs and alternate text-mode installation CDs for several architectures, for Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu.

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for your desktop or server, with a fast and easy install, regular releases, a tight selection of excellent packages installed by default, every other package you can imagine available with a few clicks from a global network of mirrors, and professional commercial technical support from Canonical Ltd and hundreds of other companies around the world.

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS will be the first Ubuntu release with a long-term support cycle: free security updates and commercial technical support will be available for three years on the desktop, and five years on the server.

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Supported on UltraSPARC T1

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-05-31

Here on The Fridge, we've covered some of the exciting work going on with the Ubuntu port to Sun's new UltraSPARC T1 (Niagara) architecture, but now the cat is out of the bag — Canonical will be supporting Ubuntu 6.06 LTS on SPARC, with particular focus on the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers. Wow! A few quotes to tell the story…

John Fowler in the Sun press release:

“Ubuntu is arguably one of the most important – if not the most important – GNU/Linux distribution on the planet and will soon blaze new trails in support for SPARC-based servers.”

Mark Shuttleworth:

I would credit the Linux/SPARC community (and David Miller in particular), and the OpenSPARC community, with the speed of this port moving from “first code” to production supportable. When I first saw David speaking about Niagara support at LCA in Dunedin in January, we all thought that Dapper could support traditional SPARC at release but then get Niagara support some months later in an update.

But the fervour with which the community at large under David’s leadership attacked the problem has meant that Linux on Niagara has progressed far faster than we expected – so much so that the first SPARC CD release of Dapper (which will be uploaded a little after the other architectures when we make the Dapper release) will support most UltraSPARC T1 machines out of the box.

Simon Phipps:

Why Ubuntu? Well, it's by far my favourite GNU/Linux (and I'm not alone – it was the system NexentaOS GNU/OpenSolaris was built from too), it's based on the rock that is Debian and best of all the company behind it has a very Software 3.0 approach to business. As Cote is quoted as saying on TechTarget, the possibilities with Ubuntu are fascinating.

So look forward to running a fully-supported Dapper Drake on some seriously sexy hardware!

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Party Time. Excellent.

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-05-25

The Ubuntu community has had a long tradition of celebrating the release of a new version. Ubuntu users and Local Teams around the world have already started to plan the worldwide celebration of the release of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.

You can find parties on the Release Party wiki page. If you want to organize your own party, then feel free to use the wiki page to coordinate your efforts. If you use flickr, then please tag your photos with the “ubuntu” tag so that it will show up on our sidebar.

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Hug Day!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-05-02

Daniel Holbach wants to motivate more of you to participate in Ubuntu Hug Day. A “Hug Day” is where volunteers join up in IRC, #ubuntu-bugs, and help sort out bug reports from users. You can work in a nice team, make sure the bug reporters' concerns are heard, gather all the information needed so developers can fix bugs, close useless bugs, find out where the bugs come from, and eventually work together with upstream to make changes happen, and get experience in hacking and fixing bugs.

Time is short, so the team will try to triage as many bugs as possible, but specifically look into the targets outlined at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay for more information. The Hug Day starts this Wednesday, May 3rd, and will run throughout the day and night, so drop on by and get involved!

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Charting the Future of Kubuntu

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-04-25

The sabdfl has announced a special meeting for Kubuntu and KDE developers to help chart the future of Kubuntu:

This is an invitation for the Kubuntu and KDE community to join us at LinuxTag on 6 May in Wiesbaden near Frankfurt to chart the future course of Kubuntu.

The LinuxTag event is a perfect opportunity for us to engage directly with the KDE user and developer communities. Germany is in many ways the heart of the KDE community, so we have been looking for a way to pull together a summit of leaders, users, developers and translators from that country and this event is hopefully going to be just that.

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