Sounder CD 8

[Colin Watson]

Sounder CD 8 is ready:

  http://ftp.no-name-yet.com/cdimage/sounder-test/8/
  rsync://ftp.no-name-yet.com/cdimage/sounder-test/8/

See http://wiki.no-name-yet.com/WartyWarthog/Archive for access
instructions. I recommend rsync if possible, as you can then download
future images based on this one to save bandwidth.

Installer improvements in this release:

  * The Back button no longer causes pathological debconf priority
    behaviour. There have been a number of other related usability
    improvements.

  * Problems with CD-ROM drives seeking about a lot during install
    should have been largely alleviated.

  * FireWire Ethernet support is gone, following consensus that it was
    good for little more than causing confusion.

  * The network configurator behaves better when DHCP is unavailable.

  * The "Copy packages to hard disk" feature is now enabled by default.
    Booting with archive-copier/copy=false (or answering no to the
    relevant question in expert mode) was supposed to turn it off, but a
    late-discovered bug means that that doesn't yet work.

  * If "Copy packages to hard disk" is enabled, then you no longer need
    the installation CD inserted after the first reboot.

  * If package selection fails, you'll be dropped into aptitude rather
    than stranded in a half-configured system.

  * gdm is now localized after the second and subsequent reboots as well
    as the first.

  * The snd-powermac module is loaded automatically on modern PowerMac
    systems.

  * amd64 images are now built entirely from the Warty archive. (Until
    recently, the installer's initrd was externally built.)

I haven't been able to keep track of all the other changes in Warty, but
among other things, we now have our own kernels based on 2.6.8.1, pmount
and friends have been polished up a lot, we have new prettier init
scripts, most launchers should now use gksudo rather than gksu to
acquire root privileges, and the desktop is settling down towards its
final form.

If you're upgrading, you may want to try with a freshly created user
account to pick up changes to the default desktop.

The main errata I know of so far are that powerpc installations will
have trouble with some modules from /etc/modules not being loaded (bug
#1088) and with XKB errors when GNOME is started (bug #1079). These
should both be fixed soon.

Bug reports should go here:

  https://bugzilla.no-name-yet.com/

Enjoy,

-- 
Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]
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