Ubuntu 7.04 available (Local Mirror)

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The final release of Ubuntu 7.04 is available for download:

Edit - Removed bad download address - check for addresses later in this thread. IS one seems to be good.
 
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Gonna try this again. tried different versions of linux but got really put off. was too difficult to get my head around it..
 
Diabolic said:
Gonna try this again. tried different versions of linux but got really put off. was too difficult to get my head around it..
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I actually shipit myself a few discs, let's hope I get it this time ;) :p
 
The only prob with Linux is games but I don't have time to play many these days anyway. Replacing my host OS with Ubuntu 7.04 once I get this version. They have sorted out a lot of the media stuff. I do my development in a vm anyway so will just move those VM's across to the linux OS. I got tired of the MS activation crap.
 
teraside said:
I actually shipit myself a few discs, let's hope I get it this time ;) :p
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It took too long for them to come last time (5 weeks). Easier to download with a local only account from the local mirror. If you do get them shipped, try and get a lot and give them to people.
 
Abe said:
It took too long for them to come last time (5 weeks). Easier to download with a local only account from the local mirror. If you do get them shipped, try and get a lot and give them to people.
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Good plan.

Open Source FTW!

*looks for a box to install it on
 
hj2k_x said:
Good plan.

Open Source FTW!

*looks for a box to install it on
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If you have a gig of RAM then install it on a VM and play around first. I am sure you will be supprised how far it has come since the early days. If you don't have VMware, download VMWare player from VMware and use one of the many online VMX generators to create one for you. You will be able to do almost everything with VMware player that you can with full vmware except snapshots etc.
 
looks like it's only 697Mb download :confused:
I downloaded SUSE 10 and it took 5 cd images..... what is more in SUSE to make it so much bigger?
Want to use linux as fileshare server, backups etc. mainly...
 
My download completed overnight, and I have since installed over my Edgy install on my laptop, and so far, its looking very nice... No issues during installation, and entire process took about 20mins...
 
Damn - unable to try it out at work - Dell GX620. Appears to be issues with the machine.
 
Abe said:
It took too long for them to come last time (5 weeks). Easier to download with a local only account from the local mirror. If you do get them shipped, try and get a lot and give them to people.
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I haven't worked on any Linux distro before, so I hope if and when I receive the disks that it will be easy enough.

As far as my limited scope goes, I know if you don't have internet, you can't use Linux, updates, new features, compatibility all that, so it goes to say that Windows is better in that regard ;) :p :D
 
teraside said:
As far as my limited scope goes, I know if you don't have internet, you can't use Linux, updates, new features, compatibility all that, so it goes to say that Windows is better in that regard ;) :p :D
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There is no diff betweent the two if you don't have internet for updates, new features etc. Both use internet to download those. For compatibility Win is better but if you do happen to link a machine to the internet, Linux is far less likely to be snorted by some virus. I remember reading that ther average time for a clean, newly connected windows box, to be infected with a virus/worm/adware when connected to the internet is about 45 minutes.

As far as the available applications go, although there are far more windows apps out there, there is a massive amount of free applications available through the Ubuntu package manager that are available with a internet connection free of charge. Check the box and Ubuntu takes care of the rest for you. No need to worry about compatibility etc.
 
Abe said:
There is no diff betweent the two if you don't have internet for updates, new features etc. Both use internet to download those. For compatibility Win is better but if you do happen to link a machine to the internet, Linux is far less likely to be snorted by some virus. I remember reading that ther average time for a clean, newly connected windows box, to be infected with a virus/worm/adware when connected to the internet is about 45 minutes.

As far as the available applications go, although there are far more windows apps out there, there is a massive amount of free applications available through the Ubuntu package manager that are available with a internet connection free of charge. Check the box and Ubuntu takes care of the rest for you. No need to worry about compatibility etc.
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Cool ;)

Like I said, I've "never" worked on Linux before, so I wouldn't really know, that was just my first glimpse of the Linux world.

Sure, Windows needs updates, but if you work offline, you don't really need the updates, is Linux the same? ;) :p :D
 
Abe said:
If you have a gig of RAM then install it on a VM and play around first. I am sure you will be supprised how far it has come since the early days. If you don't have VMware, download VMWare player from VMware and use one of the many online VMX generators to create one for you. You will be able to do almost everything with VMware player that you can with full vmware except snapshots etc.
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Cool. I have a gig of RAM and a box, CPU, PSU and HDD. Just need a mobo :p
 
hj2k_x said:
Cool. I have a gig of RAM and a box, CPU, PSU and HDD. Just need a mobo :p
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You don't need another machine. What about the machine you are typing this message on? You don't have to replace your windows, just run VMWare under windows and install/run linux in the vmware. That way you get the best of both worlds for now. You can play with Linux whenever you want and still run windows.
 
9m 51 sec before download completion..........common today still :)
 
Abe said:
You don't need another machine. What about the machine you are typing this message on? You don't have to replace your windows, just run VMWare under windows and install/run linux in the vmware. That way you get the best of both worlds for now. You can play with Linux whenever you want and still run windows.
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I see. Cool beans. I shall give it a go this weekend.
 
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