Comments on: Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Release Dates

By: salman

salman — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:40:38 +0000

i tried to install ubuntu 7.04 on my hp tx 1003au laptop having AMD turion (64×2) processor. installation starts giving errors after it tries to install hardware drivers and dosent progress any further. can anybody help?

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:27:54 +0000

Forget the above thread, had a ‘boy’ look when reading the error message. Problem solved…

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:28:43 +0000

I have two PC’s at home with AMD 64 x2 processors running on ASUS M/Boards.
The ADM 3200+ will install/run, Xandros, Red Hat 9 Ubuntu 6.1 and any other live release, eg, Supergamer (Vector Linux)
Linspire, Lycoris, Knoppix. However, when I attempt to install Ubuntu (32 bit) on the AMD 4200+
The install fails, I can’t even run it in Live CD mode as it falls over and freezes.
I tried loading Ubuntu 7.4 on the 4200+ and same deal, as was the case with all live distros.
No matter what I’ve tried it fails witha ‘PCI: cannot allocate resources’ error (Only the 6.1) Ubuntu
actually shows the error, the other distros just freeze.

It will however run the live CD and install Ubuntu 6.10 64 Bit. Anyone come across this issue before?

By: bendeleider

bendeleider — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:39:24 +0000

# freewill Says: December 12th, 2006 at 6:41 am
The Final Release is one day before my birthday [20 April 1989]

That’s exactly 100 years after Hitler was born (20 april 1889)

By: eddie

eddie — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:51:12 +0000

Date of Birth: April 20th, 1957

Almost 1/2 century, then, been using unix/linux for 1/4 century,
ubuntu rocks on most any systems I tried it on, especially laptops, even Dell.

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:47:58 +0000

I think Alec’s system has some hardware issues that need to be resolved before blaming the OS. I’ve been using Feisty on my work laptop since March and it’s been running great with only minor hiccups. Nothing that needed immediate attention, however.

By: FooLsKi

FooLsKi — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:50:46 +0000

I’ve been running Feisty with Beryl on one of my pcs for a few days now. It works purrrfectly on it. My laptop didn’t quite agree with the current Feisty Beta cd, so I rolled that one back to Edgy & Beryl.

I can’t wait for future releases and hopefully more eyecandy Edgy was the reason to seriously start thinking about saving myself from Windoze’s BSoD, Feisty is the reason I stopped thinking and started doing

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:57:59 +0000

“At what point can I install an alpha or beta release and transition into the final release through the use of updates rather than a complete install–realizing there may be hundreds of updates? I also realize I wouldn’t want to do this for an operational server or critical desktop. ”
You can install the very first alpha, and still update fully to the final release. In fact, you can update the whole way along, with a simple ’sudo apt-get update’, ’sudo apt-get upgrade’
You can even update from a previous version of Ubuntu.

By: Ankur

Ankur — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 02:37:11 +0000

Alec:
I’ve been using Ubuntu since Breezy, and I had major install problems with Edgy as well. For me, the solution was just to roll back to Dapper, which is very stable.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:14:28 +0000

I’m very much looking forward to Feisty, and to Alec — you can’t really complain that the beta crashed; if you want stable production software, don’t use a beta.

I would caution “Ubuntu-anon” to stop trolling about Windows, though — FUD doesn’t help anyone, least of all the Ubuntu community.

By: Alec

Alec — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:52:40 +0000

Broken promises! Ubuntu sounded so great. On very good mainboard, 1 gig of RAM and Pentium 4 at 2.4 Ghz, it NEVER worked well. 7.04 Beta crashed on reboot, 6.10 will NOT load assistive technology log-in. Orca mumbles at any speed, packages collide, freezing system, os LOOSES packages, LARGE TYPE-REVERSE DOES NOT WORK ON ALL PACKAGES. System wants “OK” when something DOES NOT WORK, but gives no REPAIR or DELETE option. Growl!!!!

By: Ubuntu-anon

Ubuntu-anon — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:54:22 +0000

Side Note…for those that don’t think $3000 is a lot…here’s some comparisons…

- It’s 1/10 your salary if you earn $30,000 a year (~$15/hr)
- At $15/hr, 40hrs/wk, it’s 5 WEEKS worth of work (and that’s pre-tax, rent, food, etc)
- If you’re living on your own, it’s 10 WEEKS work since you have to pay rent and stuff, then save what’s left over (10 weeks, that’s 1/5 of the year until you can get that new computer and other Windows accoutrements)
- It’s a semester or two at college, depending on where you go
- It’s a good down-payment on a new car
- It’s a fully paid-for USED car in some cases

I wanted to mention this, because a lot of folks don’t consider the overall cost since computer purchase (games, software, anti-virus, hardware, etc) is usually spread out over time. When it’s added together, it really adds up.

By: Ubuntu-anon

Ubuntu-anon — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:37:06 +0000

Off topic, but thought it’d be funny to post…

While Ubuntu rolls forth with Fawn (yeah!), Microsoft is developing Anti-Virus software for THEIR OWN OS! A logical person would ask, “if you’re going to spend time/money on something, why not on the OS to make it better rather then a band-aid?” The “logical” MS marketing folks would reply “we can’t make the OS too good cause then we couldnt’ charge folks for all that tech-support, and we couldn’t sucker them into buying an Anti-Virus program for our OS.”

I can almost hear folks at Wal-Mart now..

“Look, Martha! It’s an Anti-Virus program made by Microsoft! Wow, that means it’s the OFFICIAL Anti-Virus program of Windows! We’d better get it, and stop using that other anti-virus program! Oh, yeah, we’ll need to pick up MS Office 2007, too. I’m not sure what new features are in it, but we’d better get it cause it’s newer. Oh, shoot…we don’t meet the system specs. We’ll need a new computer, too. Boy, that’s gonna be $3000 well spent!”

By: Ivo

Ivo — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:28:32 +0000

… Aries, I mean (old, old RAM (not PC RAM))

By: Ivo

Ivo — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:26:50 +0000

I am the oldest Apr – 1965 !

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:53:57 +0000

Damn kids! Get off my lawn! (17 September 1960!!)

By: Mustapha Abiola

Mustapha Abiola — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:44:57 +0000

This will be a great development in Ubuntu’s release. I hope it’ll do some good.. I’m eagerly awaiting Feisty! I’d like to do some devel on it soon!!

By: truevox

truevox — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:45:03 +0000

I’m not positive Rob, but I’m thinking once the Beta comes out you should be safe to try that on (as you say) a non-production machine.

Woot! Got 3/22!!!

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:41:44 +0000

At what point can I install an alpha or beta release and transition into the final release through the use of updates rather than a complete install–realizing there may be hundreds of updates? I also realize I wouldn’t want to do this for an operational server or critical desktop.

By: thej

thej — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:44:47 +0000

god, i’m even older. 20 april 1975… *sigh*