All Hail the Lucid Lynx! (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

Today I was trying to apt-get a package onto my linux desktop when I realized it was taking forever to connect to the Ubuntu APT repository. But that made me think, "Is today the day?" And sure enough with a quick Google search, I realized today was indeed the day of the final release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, the Lucid Lynx! Since it was such an exciting event I thought I should join in the fun and download a copy to play with tonight. I grabbed the torrent and started up bittorrent to get my own copy of the desktop i386 ISO image. It is nice to be using bittorrent to download open source software -- which is what it is legally supposed to be used for (not for movies, pirated software, music, etc.) I booted my old iMac on the freshly burned CD and it fired right up to a very purple desktop. There are a bunch of new features to play with that should keep me quite busy tonight. I used to maintain the repository of Ubuntu ISO images here at Wash U, but the infamous WUARCHIVE server I had helped maintain in the School of Engineering  had been decommissioned (as I learned one day on the Metrolink from the system admin who happened to be riding the same train that day.) So now I have a local repository of Ubuntu ISO images setup at wubuntu.wustl.edu for anyone who wants to download their ISO image there. Right now I just have the desktop i386 and amd64 images there, but I will add more as we need them here in our department. Over the summer there are a number of 8.04 LTS systems I will want to update to 10.04 LTS, and having the ISO images available locally is sometimes handier than pulling everything over the net. R.I.P wuarchive, but long live Ubuntu!

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