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Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn is out, which means four new LiveCDs and two new LiveDVDs. Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Edubuntu all have Live “Desktop” releases to go with them.
Downloads:
Ubuntu 7.04 CDs
Kubuntu 7.04 CDs
Xubuntu 7.04 CDs
Edubuntu 7.04 CDs
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May 21st, 2007
the toram boot option remains broken on these live cds, limiting their usefulness. it appears to be on the wishlist…
May 29th, 2007
Broken release: LiveCD 7.04 fails to boot on many PCs, on the same PCs 6.10 boots fine. Boot error:
/bin/sh: can’t access tty; job control turned off
Many Ubuntu users experienced and reported it. One of the reports was classified as “severity: medium”, and now sits with no follow up for months. No warning on the home page, only congratulations how wonderfull we all (read: the Ubuntu team) are…
My stats: out of 20 PCs I tried half failed to boot 7.04, all of them booted happily 6.10, all different hardware.
Is this first time ever that a software developer decides to release a new self booting distribution knowing that it boots for less people then the previous distribution did? (this bug was reported and known well before 7.04 release). Looks like mixing commercial interest with Linux spirit did not work well for Ubuntu: new release is promised every 6 month, and indeed, 7.04 was on schedule, pity it works only for some…