What time will Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 be released today?

[Zombrainy]

anyone know, google is not helping?

 

[gentleman1]

why don't you try on their website? Usually they were saying when they launch.

 

[Zombrainy]

I did. Only found Alpha 2 downloads at the time and no mention of the Alpha 3 release time. Anyway no worries going to grab it tomorrow morning. Thanks for the reply though

 

[I am Penguin]

aNYTHING WORTWHILE EXPECTED? wHATS NEW? (dAMN cAPS)

 

[milomak]

google - http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=Ubuntu+10.04+Alpha+3
ubuntu link from search - http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid/alpha-3/

had you tried google?

 

[Tassidar]

aNYTHING WORTWHILE EXPECTED? wHATS NEW? (dAMN cAPS)

Music Store
Although the music store is scheduled to land in Alpha 3 most signs point to it being kept underwraps for a few more days. Factor this in with the postponed "big" announcement which would have likely touched upon the Canonical/7Digital partnership and all roads lead to 'not yet'-ville.

Plymouth
Pretty much everyone should now see a Plymouth powered boot screen during boot up as the open-source Nouveau driver has now been included - and enabled - by default for Nvidia users. ATi and Intel users already have KMS support.

Note: Nouveau does not support 3D effects so installing the official NVidia driver is recommended. You will still be able see Plymouth during boot up thanks to the vgafb16 module

Fast love
Talking of boot you'll, once again, notice big improvements to the duration of booting and shutting down thanks to the on-going work of the Ubuntu Foundations team.

Software Centre
If Alpha 3 is your first hop aboard the Lucid train then you'll notice a stack of improvements to the Software Centre including PPA views and a new 'Featured' category.

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Netbook Desktop, Desktop Netbook... What?!
A Netbook UI session is to be included for Desktop users and, likewise, an easy to switch to 'Desktop mode' will be included for Ubuntu Netbook users.

Netbook users without compositing/ARM users will find a shiny new "2D" launcher provided in place.

Notification Area
The biggest changes come in the notification area. In the ‘MeMenu’ you now find a text entry box to allow you to update your Twitter account with needing to open an application. Your Empathy status is also set from here via the new funky icons.

twitter

The messaging menu now has icons and no descriptions, making it far easier to use. We discussed that in a little more detail in this post.

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Gwibber
Default social networking application 'Gwibber' has gone all tweetdeck since the last Alpha release, supporting multiple, configurable panes and some awesome UI improvements. Certainly one of the highlights of Alpha 3.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/02/ubuntu-1004-alpha-3-released-later.html

 

[ambo]

anyone know, google is not helping?

I prefer to just use the net-install image. Saves you a packet of bandwidth since you only need to download the apps that you want. It also means that you install the latest version and not just a snapshot.

 

[Zombrainy]

google - http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=Ubuntu+10.04+Alpha+3
ubuntu link from search - http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid/alpha-3/

had you tried google?

Yes. At the time I posted, google didn't give good results and http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid/alpha-3/ was not available as yet and kept giving me a "page does not exist" error. Downloaded it earlier this morning though. Giving It a whirl now

I prefer to just use the net-install image. Saves you a packet of bandwidth since you only need to download the apps that you want. It also means that you install the latest version and not just a snapshot.

Never tried a net-install before. A bit too late now (just started to install in virtualbox) will definitely do so for the beta version next month.

Off-topic but I wonder if the Ubuntu music store will be successful and if they'll use .ogg as their default file type to sell music considering Ubuntu doesn't come with any propriety codecs?

 

[hawker]

Off-topic but I wonder if the Ubuntu music store will be successful and if they'll use .ogg as their default file type to sell music considering Ubuntu doesn't come with any propriety codecs?

Answers to all your Ubuntu One Music Store questions located here.

Will also be installing the Beta version when it is released.

 

[hawker]

Screw the Beta!

I just started downloading 64bit Version of Alpha 3 Can't wait! eeek! Its going to be awesome.