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Today we are introducing the first Mythbuntu Intrepid Ibex alpha release: Mythbuntu 8.10 alpha 4.  With this release, we are providing mirroring on sponsored mirrors only.

It is very important to note that this release is not compatible with Mythbuntu 7.10 or any other MythTV 0.20.2 based distribution.

Changes from Mythbuntu 8.04:

Default Guided Partition

* The guided partitoner in the installer will now default the recordings partition to XFS instead of EXT3.

Mythbuntu Apple Trailers

* The Apple Trailer plugin has been forked and is now being kept up by our very own Nick Fox. This plugin is installable from MCC or synaptic and accessible from the frontend.

Stability

* Lots of bug fixes across the board in Ubiquity and Mythbuntu Control Centre.
* Several MythTV bugs that were sent upstream got fixed.

For more detailed feature information please visit us on launchpad

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We appreciated all comments and would love to hear what you think. Please make comments to our mailing list, on the forums (with a tag indicating that this is from 8.10 or intrepid), or in #ubuntu-mythtv.

As previously,
If you encounter any issues with anything in this release (including ubiquity), please file a bug on launchpad:
http://bugs.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/8.10/

Known issues

* Diskless is broken. Diskless clients are unable to boot.

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The ISO is available here:

i386 Builds

Desktop Disk md5sum
Desktop Disk Direct Mirror
Alternate Disk md5sum
Alternate Disk Direct Mirror

AMD64 Builds

Desktop Disk md5sum
Desktop Disk Direct Mirror
Alternate Disk md5sum
Alternate Disk Direct Mirror

Ubuntu distributor Canonical has joined the Linux Foundation, bringing more of a desktop consumer point of view to the enterprise Linux-dominated organization.

Ubuntu has taken on an increasingly important role with its focus on desktops, Windows compatibility, and ease of installation. Mark Shuttleworth founded the Ubuntu project in 2004 to get Linux established as a low-cost education system in South Africa, then built Canonical to support it. He still serves on its technical board.

Read more at Information Week

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #104 for the week of August 10th - August 16th, 2008 is now available.

In this Issue:

* Intrepid Alpha-4 released
* New UWN translation team
* Global Bug Jam: Retrospective
* MOTU school sessions for developer week wanted
* MOTU interview
* Ubuntu stats
* Launchpad news
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* In Other News
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security
* And much, much more!

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