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- priegog, on 10/22/2009, -1/+163People, please use the torrents. The download servers are crawling anyways, so it's the fastest way of getting them.
alternate, amd64: http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/9.10/ubuntu-9. ...
alternate, i386: http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/9.10/ubuntu-9. ...
livecd, amd64: http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/9.10/ubuntu-9. ...
livecd, i386: http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/9.10/ubuntu-9. ...
netbook remix: http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/9.10/ubuntu-9. ... - avatarpalin, on 10/24/2009, -3/+51I'm so freaking excited... I was one of the people that won the wallpaper competition.. I it sounds so stupid but I can't wait to see my photo as one of the official wallpapers!!
- bruisky, on 10/24/2009, -4/+43I can't wait to give this a try! Ubuntu just keeps getting better and better. :)
- seanmc303, on 10/24/2009, -0/+308 minutes to download torrent. About 15 minutes to install on a VM on my laptop (5400 rpm drive). 24 seconds to boot to desktop. 6 seconds to shutdown.
Canonical did a good job with the performance (excluding torrent download time of course). - Stemp, on 10/24/2009, -1/+27Release Candidate ! RC not the final version.
- InactiveUser, on 10/24/2009, -1/+26That's your opinion and you are welcome to it but for me, the OS running this box has yet to let me down. Its a perfect system for what I want. I took the time to learn it and I am not complaining.
Downloading now. - aquadude, on 10/24/2009, -3/+25The final version is coming out in 5 days. I wouldn't hurry to download the RC :/
- Nitrodist88, on 10/24/2009, -0/+19FYI:
AMD64 is 64bit.
i386 is 32bit.
Use 64bit if your CPU supports it. There are no downsides to using 64bit in Ubuntu (that I know of :P) and I've been using mine for 4 months so far with no problems. - UK31337, on 10/24/2009, -1/+19"Be nice and use the torrent ;)"
Looking forward to the day when Microsoft say that :D - mickstephenson, on 10/24/2009, -0/+16@noahgelman: most people will just keep the RC install and update it as normal.
- lazyslacker, on 10/24/2009, -0/+16Yes, the torrents are the way to go here. I'm downloading the 64bit live CD that way. Within seconds of starting it, the download speed pegged at my max downlink speed which is 1.5 megabytes per second. 6 minutes to go...
- InactiveUser, on 10/24/2009, -0/+11Flash works fine. apt-get install anything please - ta thanks.
Microsoft wasn't exactly "polished" on release either. I can't blame MS for that but I can blame hardware vendors for being sloppy managers. Still it amazes me I can connect to the Internet strait away after installing and see all the hardware is working - with driver and fully functional when using Linux. MS doesn't do that yet though. Sad really. Did flash work out of the box for you? It did for me... - steelclash84, on 10/24/2009, -2/+12$ sudo apt-get remove --purge swfdec-mozilla mozilla-plugin-gnash flashplugin-nonfree adobe-flashplugin
$ sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin - smacksaw, on 10/24/2009, -0/+10It's an RC...99.999999% there. Sorry to hear about your problem. But there are workarounds. You could roll back to a previous version that you know did work.
- ilpalazzo, on 10/24/2009, -1/+11Nonsense.
Ubuntu’s release always come out approximately one month after GNOME’s stable release. (which come every six month)
And there is always a release candidate exactly seven days before every Ubuntu’s stable release.
The only remaining question is : Ain’t Microsoft trying to gain some media exposure along with Ubuntu 9.10, OpenSuSE 11.2 and Fedora 12 releases ? - Nitrodist88, on 10/24/2009, -0/+9You could probably get them to host a local copy somewhere by talking to your comp sci department. Maybe they even already have a copy hosted!
- gavintlgold, on 10/24/2009, -0/+9It doesn't matter so much, anyone with the RC will just have some small updates, it's not like they'll have to reinstall.
And using the RC helps find final, unusual bugs. - avatarpalin, on 10/24/2009, -0/+8Actually that's my one.. "Grass in A Minor" I call it. Here is the link to my flickr site where I posted it a while ago before entering the competition....
There's a bunch there that I entered but didn't make the cut.. just search for the tag Ubuntu
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewkneebone/354431 ... - gavintlgold, on 10/24/2009, -0/+8I am VERY happy about all the wallpapers. They're all very nice. I'm using the green grass one now ;)
Which one is yours? - jimminy, on 10/24/2009, -0/+7You won't get Grub 2 or Ext4 just by upgrading.
- iletumi, on 10/24/2009, -0/+7Asshat link above
Correct link below
http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php - noahgelman, on 10/24/2009, -1/+8I was confused because why would you have a release candidate 5 days before the real version is due out? Are you going to have to do another complete install of 9.10 or will it be able to update to it without going through the whole deal?
- mickstephenson, on 10/24/2009, -0/+7Yeah, also with my motherboard audio is extremely buggy, full screen games crash, and I am continually pestered by a kernel oops, I have never had hardware issues with this motherboard before, and it has been through many (since edgy) ubuntu iterations. This release has really dropped a bollock for me, although I like the new icon theme, probably the most significant improvement of this release.
To solve the flash problems I just download http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html and extract the tar.gz file and put the libflashplayer.so file in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
And copy and paste has always been flaky, especially in firefox, this is not a new bug, to solve this install glipper and add it to your panel. - arcticblue, on 10/24/2009, -0/+6It's working fine for me...
- iskin, on 10/24/2009, -1/+7Flash doesn't work as well either. I'm running a 3 GHz dual core and the 64-bit can't max out the video without being choppy but the 32-bit is smooth as butter.
- b3n87, on 10/24/2009, -1/+7thats one method of upgrading.
Dont forget "sudo" - DodgeV83, on 10/24/2009, -0/+5Only disabling Compiz will completely solve your Flash problem, even with the flash player 10 link above.
System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Visual Effects -> None
While the above will get your youtube buttons to work again, if you'd rather keep Compiz running, you can also right click somewhere in the video, hold right right mouse button down, left click elsewhere to remove the pop-up, then left click again on the youtube button. Running beta/RC Operating System is great ain't it?? - silentdragoon, on 10/24/2009, -0/+5If you're installing the Netbook Remix on a Samsung NC10, or another Samsung netbook, there are instructions here:
http://williamjudd.com/2009/10/23/how-to-install-k ... - Almightymole, on 10/24/2009, -0/+5University blocks use of torrents, blumin bollocks.
- theSuperman, on 10/24/2009, -0/+5Yeah my college also blocked bittorrent (actually all P2P apps), however in our Computer Science Lab, there were no caps or blocks. So I would just bring my laptop in there, hide it in the back of the room and download stuff from there. I think the sys admin eventually blocked my MAC address from there though.
- seanmc303, on 10/24/2009, -0/+5You beat me to it. My torrent is currently downloading at my ISP's downstream Mb/s cap right now.
- Chipesh, on 10/24/2009, -0/+5I wouldn't bother with the RC at this point.
It's seemed a bit dysfunctional to me.The graphical restricted extras didn't work and it wouldn't detect either of my wireless cards.
A wired connection and 112 updates cured this.
Amazingly the silly wireless keyring message still pops up up by default for auto log on.
(solved by "allow for all users" in network properties).
Apart from the crap default wallpaper looking good and feels very responsive.
Mint8 should be excellent.
Bob - YourNameHere1, on 10/24/2009, -0/+4@ AlanInVancouver:
I don't use Ubuntu as my distro, but I do use a 64-bit Linux distro. Just use a lib-32 version of Google Earth. The bin-32 version that I use works even better than the Google Earth that I have installed on my Vista64 partition.
Ubuntu should have a lib-32 version similar to this: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12890 - insanebrain, on 10/24/2009, -0/+4yes
- ikkefc3, on 10/24/2009, -0/+4@iskin: Are you sure you are running the 64bit version of flash and not the 32bit version via nspluginwrapper?
- benexor, on 10/24/2009, -0/+4Am I getting this one on running "update-manager -d"?
- thevoiceless, on 10/24/2009, -0/+4@iskin
That might be your video drivers, because 64-bit Flash in Ubuntu has been smooth as butter for me on the same processor - La9os, on 10/24/2009, -0/+3Runs really fast on netbooks with the new intel video driver, and gets battery life on par with windows (at least on my system). Ive been using it as my main netbook OS since the beta.
- pnegre, on 10/24/2009, -0/+3Much faster than direct download.
- U83RMENSCH, on 10/24/2009, -0/+3link to yours.. I'd like to see it but i dont plan on doing a reinstall anytime soon.
- ilpalazzo, on 10/24/2009, -0/+3[/irony]
English is not my mother language. Sorry if the irony of the last paragraph wasn’t obvious.
But I was completely aware of the fact that my rhetorical question was pure nonsense too. ;-) - 0tis, on 10/24/2009, -0/+3Not an official source, but http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1244488 has some more information on it.
It's possible Nvidia have fixed the drivers, though... arcticblue, what drivers are you using? - Azathothh, on 10/24/2009, -0/+3green grass? i've seen one of the those somewhere else.....
- insanebrain, on 10/24/2009, -0/+3true. The 185 release during beta phase totally ***** my system.
- benexor, on 10/24/2009, -0/+3It was a bit bumpy... This new version didn't recognise my nvidia driver after restarting, so it got stuck on command line login with the screen flickering badly. I had to go in to recovery mode and edit the driver name from "nvidia" to "nv" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. After that, reinstalling the driver fixed it.
- AlanInVancouver, on 10/24/2009, -1/+4Google Earth isn't supported! I had to install a 32-bit OS to get GE to work.
- U83RMENSCH, on 10/24/2009, -0/+3running both open suse 11.1 and ubuntu 9.04 on my laptop.. opensuse starts much much slower for me, i would imagine 9.10 is faster.
- XeroXenith, on 10/24/2009, -0/+2Good comment up until the shameless plug - Linux Mint is a good distro.
- inactive, on 10/24/2009, -0/+2I'm downloading it just to seed.
- TheWindBlows, on 10/25/2009, -0/+2FGLRX .... WORKS !.... Surprisingly, the 9.10 final driver ( fglrx 8.661 ) was released same night as the release candidate and works great on Ubuntu 9.10 . ATI is finally getting their Linux support together. Older cards are supported Openly with support for newer cards in fglrx and partially in open source, which fglrx can now load on top of.
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