Latest Ubuntu delivers on the promise of Open Source
While millions consider whether to pay for Vista, the Ubuntu project releases its secure, high performance, free desktop and server editions.
For users wanting a secure, feature rich alternative to Microsoft Windows, Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today the Thursday release of Ubuntu version 7.04.
Ubuntu is the award-winning Linux distribution for the desktop, laptop, thin client and server which brings together the best of open source software every 6 months. Ubuntu 7.04 desktop edition includes a ground-breaking Windows migration assistant, excellent wireless networking support and improved multimedia support.
Ubuntu 7.04 server edition adds support for hardware facilities that speed up the use of virtual machines as well as other improved hardware support, making it an excellent choice as a web, database, file and print server, the fastest growing area of Linux server use. Ubuntu’s already outstanding support for thin clients is boosted with advanced print and sound support.
“In the coming months, many individuals and businesses will be making the decision to upgrade their existing computer systems and their operating systems,” said Jane Silber, director of Operations, Canonical Ltd. “With added features to both the desktop and server editions, Ubuntu 7.04 is the most user-friendly version to date and is ideally suited to anyone who wants to make the switch to Linux and join the community of Ubuntu users. In fact, with this version of Ubuntu, it is easier than ever to move away from proprietary platforms.”
At the same time as Ubuntu, the project also will release new versions of Kubuntu and Edubuntu, specialized versions of Ubuntu which include the KDE desktop environment and educational applications, respectively.
Ubuntu Fully Supported
Used by businesses, home users, schools and governments around the world, upgrades to new releases will always be free of charge. Ubuntu 7.04 will be maintained for 18 months on both the desktop and on the server, and additional free support is available from the thriving Ubuntu community. For deployments which require additional service guarantees, full telephone and online support is commercially available globally from the professional support team at Canonical Ltd and service partners.
Comments(28)
When using Ubuntu, make shure to activate the “Multiverse” repositories, as most fun-stuff (mediaplayers, CSS descramblers, p2p clients) is listet in there.
I leave xp pro sp2 almost one year ago
NO more viruses, no more BSOD.
Ubuntu is the best GNU/Linux distro for new/home users.
yeah i’m dloading kubuntu atm, just for kicks, lol.
interesting .. hmmmm
im already using them since yesterday! great stuff
qwert: they’re enabled by default in Ubuntu 7.04, there’s even automagic codec installation app
didnt read up on the whole article, but does ubuntu support all kind of games etc?
//cheers
devius
> didnt read up on the whole article, but does ubuntu support all kind of games etc?
Ubuntu isn’t Windows, so it doesn’t support your normal array of Windows-only games.
But with Wine (free), Cedega (monthly fee) or Crossover (one time payment) you can get most games working.
I prefer mandriva.
mandriva isn’t free holmes….
I dono why youd bother with this… Seems like a stupid waste of time to be honest!
New *nix version released, millions yawn in total and utter disinterest.
Oh, and don’t forget, this will be the year Linux beats Windows! Yeah, really, we mean it this time, this isn’t like those 20,000 other times we’ve said it…
Talk about preaching to the basement-dwelling choir.
torrent please on newtorrents
Would gladly move to Linux if there was more support with it in the commercial industry. Such as more applications and games made FOR linux. >.> currently sorry to say but Windows STILL owns linux >.> No offence.
There is wine and all of those which emulate the Windows environment, however games just dont run as fast. Therefore ya basically gimping ya system. Ya could buy the fastest graphics card to play a game, but it could only perform as fast as a the 2nd fastest graphics card since its gimpped in Linux. Since the game cannot run without windows emulation
Yeah
Love that distro!
“I dono why youd bother with this… Seems like a stupid waste of time to be honest!”
Yes, a secure, fully-featured operating system is a waste of time.
If you ask me, there are a million reasons why Linux is better than Windows. And only two reasons why Windows is better than Linux: games and Photoshop.
Anon:
). Nvidia and ATi release their own drivers (ATi ones suck ass but that’s another story) and in many benchmarks they’re faster than Windows ones. Recently published benchmarks (using Enemy Territory) on Phoronix show that running games through Wine/Cedega is faster than on Windows Vista anyway. The speed varies but the performance hit from using Wine is not significant, I’ve seen games perform better emulated on Linux.
Not all of us play games or just use game console (I consider Windows to be a game console too
Anon clearly does not understand
. He cannot burn CDs from the command line, I bet 
@ Mr. X
But he can burn cd’s from k3b
Best regards
Soulsizzle: Most versions of Photoshop work wonderfully under WINE or Crossover Office.
And for everyone bitching about games aside from running many popular games under WINE, the number of free & commercial native games for linux is increasing every day. Here’s a few links for ya:
http://gaming.gwos.org/
http://www.linux-gamers.net/
http://www.linuxgames.com/
http://www.happypenguin.org/
http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Native_Games
http://linuxemu.retrofaction.com/
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.holarse-linuxgaming.de%2Fh2006%2Fspace%2Fstart&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8
http://linuxgamingworld.com/
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubuntugames.org%2F&langpair=pt%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8
If none of you can find anything to occupy your time amoung this huge collection then you should just stick with windows and leave us the fuck alone.
Do many programs support this?
Thats the beauty of windows, there are TONS of programs compatible with it.
It tends to boil down to what, your critical apps are, I’m lucky Furcadia, my most critical app runs under wine nicely. I’ve been running Ubutu for 12mths on my laptop, ever since the recovery partition for XPsp2 on my Acer Aspire 1644WLMI, some how corrupted and Acer told me that it would be an hundred dollars to restore, plus I would of had to mail my laptop away to do it. No way hozay! (yes I made the default recovery cd first time I booted the laptop and thats corrupted also) [How can companys sell broken software and then tell you its an feature not an bug?]
My top ten resons for not going back to buggy windows;
1. It secure and stable.
2. Whats spyware and viruses (omg I dont need norton eating up all my resourses)
3. It just works!
4. I have an working 3d rotating desktop, that dosnt slow down my pc.
5. It reconises my palm TX and my sony erricson mobile phone (under xp I had to spend ages installing driver disks, it be nice if vista worked out the box)
6. Productivity is up and ever increasing.
7. Easy to install comercial apps like Nero linux.
8. Wow with network manager I can access hotspot easy with my wireless! (no more having to use painfull win2k machines at the Library)
9. Its free.
10.Sharing printers is easy.
2 things Id like to see improve.
1) Better support for winmodems. (yes tried Linmodems, but it not worked, its not perfected yet, give it time)
2) Companys like E-bay to make their free software tools available to linux users not just windows.
Over all I cant see my self really buying windows ever again, thankyou.
https://shipit.ubuntu.com/
i love the way they will send you out a nicely packaged version for free! its nice to get mail addresssed to your handle as well ;p
Yeah, Ubuntu and Debian are great.
We are alle happy that Microsoft made Vista to destroy there own company. Its huge, slow and expensive if you only want to type text, e-mail and surf on intetnet. Windows is nice as a game box. Microsoft admit their fault in the Xbox, now they have to admit that other fault: Windows. I’m working with Ubuntu since 5.04
By the way, WINE stands for: Windows interpreter Not an emulater.
Linux Rulez
ediblemindfck: the world could do without simple folks like you just fine
hikaricore: your girlfriend looks like your sister
Amen Brotha!
Yes it’s true Ubuntu just made M$oft a little more scared of the Nix name. Wait till Apple unleashes Leopard but if you want Vista + Leopard together just do what Bill & Steve does get Ubuntu.