First, forgive me for the cheesy title of this post. Its 6 am and I am jetlagged. After a successful trip to Italy and Finland, I am finally back home and what a pleasure it was to find that my new notebook had finally arrived! I got a new X300 Thinkpad with a solid-state drive and a bunch of goodies, that I won't go into. At least, not yet. The first thing I did after booting into the machine was to check the drive space. The laptop comes with Microsoft Vista pre-installed. There was no way around it.

The next thing I did? Slide in the Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 CD into the drive (yes, unlike the MacBook Air, this one actually has an optical drive) and reboot. The CD booted without a hitch. After a quick inspection, I ran the install and a few minutes later, I had Hardy Heron running on the Thinkpad.

I just finished installing 8.04 LTS on my old(er) Fujitsu Lifebook P2120. Yeah, I'm slow at adoption...by a few days. So, forgive me! Anyway, I had tested the Beta under VMWare so no real surprises there, except the big surprise was with suspend and hibernate. After installing and without further updating, I decided to try out suspend and hibernate features. Well, guess what? They work like a charm. A bit slow compared to Windows XP or MacOSX, but it actually works!!! Way to go Ubuntu!!!

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (long term support) also known as Hardy Heron is just around the corner. Keep an eye out for the new version. The next one is Intrepid Ibex, to be released in October this year. Intrepid Ibex will be 8.10

In case you are wondering about the numbering convention, it follows the last digit of the year plus a dot plus the month of release. April 2008  is 8.04

This is a request to vote an idea up on the Ubuntu food chain. The idea is simple. If the wallpaper that comes with Ubuntu had branding (such as the Ubuntu logo) it would make a stronger impact on the audience that sees the logo. Like the idea? Vote for it!

From the BALUG site:

For our 2008-03-25 meeting we are proud to present:
Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu/Canonical.

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Untangle and the ACCRC are working on an installfest for Northern California schools that will take place on Saturday March 1st.   The event will refurbish hundreds of unwanted computers that would otherwise get thrown out with Ubuntu and then donate them to schools.  There will be four installfest locations (San Francisco, Berkeley, San Mateo & Novato) and we really need your help to make this happen.  We need help installing Ubuntu, breaking down broken computers and just plain cleaning up after ourselves so there is something for everyone todo, no matter how technical they are.  You can find out more info on the event and how you can volunteer here.

Ubuntu's next release is 7.10 aka Gutsy Gibbon, which is due in October of this year (the 7 comes from 2007 and 10 comes from October). Before 7.10 can come out, 8.04 code named Hardy Heron has been announced. This will be a Long Term Support (LTS) release. From Jono Bacon's blog:

"I am delighted to have the pleasure of announcing the Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04), the next version of Ubuntu that will succeed Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10, due for release in October 2007). Not only will the Ubuntu community continue to do what it does best, produce an easy-to-use, reliable, free software platform, but this release will proudly wear the badge of Long Term Support (LTS) and be supported with security updates for five years on the server and three years on the desktop. We look forward to releasing the Hardy Heron in April 2008."

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I've been looking for a stable long term distro release. Debian is always great with its "stable" version. At UbuntuLive, Matt Zimmerman, CTO at Canonical showed a roadmap as part of his presentation. Sometimes, a visual aid makes all the difference. It looks like Dapper Drake, aka Ubuntu 6.06 will be around until 2011 on the server. That's long enough for me!. With backports of stable software, LTS is beginning to look a lot like Debian stable.

 

What: Linux Terminal Server Project presentation and demo at SF State University.

When: 2pm to 4pm, Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Where: Room 219, Business Bldg. SF State Campus

Who: Presentation by Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. All are welcome to attend. Please RSVP if possible.