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Introduction

The Ubuntu developers are moving very quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source Community has to offer. This is the Ubuntu 7.04 Beta and it comes packed with a whole host of excellent new features including the released GNOME 2.18, the 2.6.20 kernel and much more.

Note: This is still an beta release. Do not install it on production machines. The final stable version will be released in April 2007.

Contents

  1. Migrate your data
    1. How to Test
  2. New Games: Sudoku and Chess
  3. Your disk in ring view
  4. Simpler Multimedia
  5. Networking Improvements
  6. Kernel
  7. Artwork
  8. Help Center
  9. Desktop Effects
  10. Xorg 7.2
  11. Better bug reporting
  12. Download Beta
  13. Reporting Bugs & Testing
  14. Participate in Ubuntu
  15. More Information
  16. Feedback

Migrate your data

Built into the installer is the new migration-assistant, which helps you move your data from your old OS into Ubuntu. And not just from a single user, migration-assistant will allow you to take data from multiple users and put them in the correct user account on Ubuntu.

How to Test

Forewarned: Since Migration Assistant and the new partition manager are unstable, it is crucial that you back up any and all data before testing. Please report bugs to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/migration-assistant/+bugs

New Games: Sudoku and Chess

With a change of maintainers in gnome-games, the pleas for new and more exciting games was heard. After two surveys, one to figure out which game to remove and another to determine to which one to add, two winners emerged: gnome-sudoku and glchess. Both of these games have now been added to gnome-games 2.17 and you can find them under Applications > Games > Chess or Sudoku.

Chess, GNOME style

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeistyFawn/Herd1?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=chess.png

Sudoku, GNOME style

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeistyFawn/Herd1?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=sudoku.png

Your disk in ring view

One of the new tools that came with Ubuntu 6.10 was the Disk Usage Analyzer. With this new version, you can easily view your disk usage stastics in a more intuitive manner.

Disk analyzer

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeistyFawn/Herd1?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=boabob.png

Simpler Multimedia

Easy Codec Installation has been implemented in Feisty Fawn Herd 3, When trying to play media files, Ubuntu will try to install the necessary codecs automatically, and start playing the desired file.

Networking Improvements

New in Feisty is Network Manager, a simple way to find and connect to wireless and wired networks.

New Zeroconf support makes it easy to network desktop computers without needing servers to assign IP addresses or names.

Kernel

Feisty's kernel is VMI enabled, for improved performance when running on VMware hypervisors. VMI paravirtualization can be enabled in VMware Workstation 6.0 beta http://www.vmware.com/products/beta/ws/.

Artwork

For Feisty all new artwork is trickling in, including a new background image, and a usplash image that has more 'bling'.

Help Center

In order to make Help more accessible, a brand new Help Center with a easier to use interface that is more stylish.

Desktop Effects

Graphical Desktop Effects will be made extremely accessible, with one click activation in the system menu.

Xorg 7.2

Keeping in step with the cutting edge mentality, X11R7.2, the third release of the modular X Window system, is utilized in this and future Feisty releases. X11R7.2 comes with significant stability and correctness fixes, including improved autoconfiguration heuristics, enhanced support for GL-based compositing managers such as Compiz and Beryl, and improved support for PCI systems with multiple domains. It also incorporates the new, more extensible XACE security policy framework.

Better bug reporting

Since this is an alpha release not all system applications are stable, and to help testers file bug reports the latest release of apport is included.

Download Beta

Get it while it's hot. ISOs and torrents are available at:

Reporting Bugs & Testing

Feisty Fawn has bugs! (I bet you're not surprised). Your comments, bug reports, patches and suggestions will help fix bugs and improve future releases. After reading https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs please report bugs through Malone.

If you want to help out with those bugs, the Bug Squad team in Launchpad is always looking for help.

If you plan to do an installation of Feisty Beta, be sure to head to [Testing]. With just a few minutes of time at your hands, you can really help to improve Ubuntu. We have two different tests; one takes just a short while, but the other is more thorough.

Participate in Ubuntu

If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at

More Information

You can find out more about Ubuntu on our website and wiki.

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Feedback

This document is maintained by the Ubuntu Marketing Team. Please feel free to contact us regarding any concerns or suggestions by either sending an email to ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com or by using any of the other methods on the Ubuntu Marketing Team wiki page.